The Dusekkar, Doomsekkar, and Ghosdeeri are three Roblox hats that share the same 2008 pumpkin-and-antler mesh but almost nothing else. The Dusekkar came first, handed to five people in 2008 before a small public release in 2010. Doomsekkar followed in 2013 as a 31,000 Robux Halloween gift box. Ghosdeeri came a year after that, from a nearly identical gift box, and it's the only one of the three that trades on the marketplace today, with a live RAP of roughly 2.53 million Robux across 428 copies.
What Is the Dusekkar Series?
All three hats use the exact same mesh: a dark pumpkin with a hollowed, glowing interior and a pair of black antlers jutting from the sides. What changes between them is the color palette, the fire effect, and, most importantly for collectors, whether Roblox ever flipped the switch that makes an item a tradeable Limited.
The family started as a favor between two of Roblox's earliest employees, then got revived twice during the site's mid-2010s Halloween gift-box era. Only the youngest member ever became fully resellable. All three still show up in the classic-hat corner of the catalog, and Ghosdeeri specifically sits on the classic hats collection alongside the platform's other pre-UGC accessories.
Worth a note for anyone cross-referencing catalog trivia: community wiki pages file all three of these hats under the same broad "Pumpkin Head" umbrella used for the black-pumpkin Eerie Pumpkin Head lineage. They're unrelated designs that share only a Halloween theme and a pumpkin silhouette. The Dusekkar family is its own mesh, its own history, and, as this article covers, its own very different rarity story.
The Dusekkar (2008): A Favor Between Roblox's First Employees
The original hat goes back to an internal deal. John Shedletsky, one of Roblox's earliest employees and its Creative Director until 2014 (Roblox fans know him better today as Telamon, the admin character behind some of the platform's most famous exclusive items), wanted Matthew Dusek to build a currency-exchange feature for the site. Dusek, who joined Roblox as its second employee right after Shedletsky and went on to serve as Technical Director and Chief Architect from 2006 to 2019, agreed on one condition: Shedletsky had to make him a pumpkin hat with horns first.
Shedletsky published the result on March 3, 2008, and named it after Dusek. For nearly two years the hat existed for exactly five people: Dusek, Shedletsky, and three other early community figures. Nobody else could get one. That changed in December 2010, when Roblox brought the hat back as a prize inside the Silver Gift of Surprise during that year's Giftsplosion event, priced at 10,000 Robux. Roughly 390 additional copies went out during that window.
The Dusekkar also has a small first-mover claim to fame: community records credit it as the first Roblox accessory built with a fire particle effect, added when it returned during Giftsplosion 2010. That fire effect ran for over a decade before Roblox disabled the particle in February 2025, so current screenshots of the hat no longer show the flame that defined it for most of its life.
Doomsekkar (2013): The Recolor Nobody Could Set on Fire
Roblox brought the mesh back a third time on October 17, 2013, as the final surprise inside that year's Big BOOtiful Gift of Destiny, a 31,000 Robux box restricted to members with Turbo Builders Club or Outrageous Builders Club, the paid tiers that predated today's Roblox Plus. Roughly 283 copies went out to members who opened the box. This version swapped the palette to dark purple with a lime-green interior and was built to emit a green fire effect, a first for the platform at the time.
Except the fire didn't work. The green flame was live in Doomsekkar's thumbnail but never rendered in-game, and it stayed broken for four years. The frustration got worse a year later, when Ghosdeeri launched with a working in-game flame from day one. Doomsekkar owners spent 2014 through 2017 running forum petitions asking Roblox to fix it, the largest thread stretching past nineteen pages of replies before the Roblox forums shut down entirely in December 2017. Roblox finally patched the effect on January 23, 2018, more than four years after the hat's original release.
Ghosdeeri (2014): The One You Can Actually Buy
The third and final retexture arrived on October 21, 2014, as the last item unwrapped from that year's Big Gift of the Phantom Hunter, another 31,000 Robux box. Roblox's own catalog description leans into the horror theme: "The cursed spirit is doomed to walk the Earth until it has hunted its hunter." An initial 389 copies went out to players who opened the box, and roughly 39 more have entered circulation since, most likely through Roblox Support account-rollback cases, bringing the total ever created to 428.
Ghosdeeri got its blue fire effect working immediately, and the story behind that is its own piece of catalog trivia. The designer, a user known as DarkGenex, built the effect to work only for himself through a private script, mirroring how The Dusekkar's fire had once been restricted to Matt Dusek alone. Roblox's admins stripped that restriction before release, which made the flame public for every owner by accident. That's a big part of why Doomsekkar owners were so annoyed: a hat that came out a year later, using the same base mesh, had a working public fire effect from launch while theirs sat dark.
The bigger difference between Ghosdeeri and its two predecessors has nothing to do with fire. On November 25, 2016, during that year's Thanksgiving sale, Roblox converted Ghosdeeri into a Limited, opening it up to the resale marketplace. The Dusekkar and Doomsekkar never got the same treatment. Both remain rare, closed-distribution hats held by whoever received them originally; neither shows up in Roblox's resale data or ours, because neither one carries a live market to track.
Live Market Data
Ghosdeeri is the only member of this family with a resale market, so it's also the only one with numbers worth publishing:
| Item | Released | Origin | Live RAP | Copies | Tradeable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghosdeeri | Oct 21, 2014 | Big Gift of the Phantom Hunter | 2,529,354 | 428 | Yes, Limited since Nov 2016 |
| Doomsekkar | Oct 17, 2013 | Big BOOtiful Gift of Destiny | No RAP tracked | ~283 | Not currently resellable |
| The Dusekkar | Mar 3, 2008 | Internal gift, later Giftsplosion 2010 | No RAP tracked | ~390 | Not currently resellable |
Ghosdeeri's lowest live resale ask currently sits well above its RAP, north of 4.5 million Robux against a RAP near 2.53 million. That gap is normal for a thin-float classic grail: RAP is a slow-moving average of past sales, not a live quote, and on a hat with only 428 copies in existence, a handful of actual trades can leave the average lagging far behind what a buyer would need to offer today. Nearly 97,000 favorites on the item add real demand pressure on top of that scarcity.
Why the Youngest Hat Is Worth the Most
This is the counterintuitive part of the family's story. The Dusekkar and Doomsekkar are arguably scarcer than Ghosdeeri by raw copy count, and The Dusekkar in particular carries a two-year run as a five-person exclusive that nothing else in this trio can match. But rarity alone doesn't create a resale market. Roblox has to flip an item to Limited status before it can be bought, sold, or priced at all, and only Ghosdeeri ever got that flip. The Dusekkar and Doomsekkar stayed frozen the moment their gift boxes closed: interesting to own, impossible to shop for.
That's the lesson collectors take from this family more than any other single detail. A closed, no-longer-obtainable item isn't automatically a tradeable asset. Plenty of Roblox hats with fascinating backstories, including two of the three hats covered here, simply never became part of the market that RAP and reseller pricing describe. Ghosdeeri's premium comes from the same scarcity logic as its siblings, plus the one thing they're missing: a way for anyone to actually acquire it.
A Collector's Outlook
This isn't financial advice, and a Limited this thin, with 428 copies split among long-term holders, carries real liquidity risk on both sides of a trade. For collectors specifically drawn to catalog history rather than pure scarcity math, Ghosdeeri offers something most classic grails don't: two well-documented, unpurchasable siblings that make its own resale market feel almost like an accident of Roblox's 2016 Thanksgiving housekeeping. Anyone building a position in thin-float classic hats should treat live asks on the deal feed as the real price signal rather than RAP alone, and can track open listings through the Reseller Terminal.
FAQ
What is the Dusekkar series?
Three Roblox hats built from the same 2008 pumpkin-and-antler mesh: The Dusekkar (2008), Doomsekkar (2013), and Ghosdeeri (2014). Only Ghosdeeri is a tradeable Limited today.
Why don't The Dusekkar and Doomsekkar have a RAP?
Roblox never converted either one into a Limited item, so neither has a resale market to track. Ghosdeeri is the only member of the family Roblox flipped to Limited status, which it did on November 25, 2016.
Who is The Dusekkar named after?
Matthew Dusek, Roblox's second employee and its Technical Director and Chief Architect from 2006 to 2019. He asked John Shedletsky, Roblox's Creative Director at the time, to build him a pumpkin hat with horns in exchange for a currency-exchange feature.
Why did Doomsekkar owners petition Roblox for years?
Doomsekkar launched in 2013 with a broken green fire effect that never rendered in-game, while Ghosdeeri, released a year later from an almost identical gift box, worked immediately. Owners ran forum petitions from 2014 until the Roblox forums closed in 2017, and Roblox fixed the effect on January 23, 2018.
How many Ghosdeeri copies exist?
- An initial 389 came from the Big Gift of the Phantom Hunter in October 2014, with roughly 39 more added later, most likely through Roblox Support account-rollback cases.