Here's my two cents.  I think the Smithsonian should take it back and put it on display and be done with it.  Then if we want to see it, we go see it.  Here is why I think so...like Andy said, #3 has been a HUGE fiasco.  It has caused lots of unnecessary stress within our club, raised questions that there seem to be no clear answers to, and we now have the whole toy thing to deal with.  Now that it is restored to its original glory, I say put it back in the museum and let it be.  I am not necessarily worried about someone stealing the big fella, but I am concerned with vandalism, and WAYYY more worried about the idiot that swerves in front of the transport truck carrying #3 which then swerves to avoid killing said idiot, gets off the side of the shoulder, and rolls down a ditch, subsequently destroying the thing which we are so dilligently trying to "protect!"

Extreme?  Maybe.  Crazier stuff has happened.