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title: "Portrait of a Hero Series: Roblox's Framed Limiteds"
description: "The Portrait of a Hero series is 11 Roblox Limiteds sold from 2014 to 2018. ROBLOX HQ leads at 28,970 RAP across 301 copies. See every frame's value."
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author: "RBX Invest Research"
published: "2026-09-20"
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# Portrait of a Hero Series: Roblox's Framed Limiteds

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*The Portrait of a Hero series is 11 Roblox Limiteds sold from 2014 to 2018. ROBLOX HQ leads at 28,970 RAP across 301 copies. See every frame's value.*

The Portrait of a Hero series is a line of 11 Roblox Limiteds built as giant picture frames that hang off your avatar, released between May 2014 and July 2018. A Limited is an item Roblox stopped selling, so the only way to get one now is to buy it from another player. Ten of the frames sold for 1,500 or 2,000 Robux in prints (the fixed number of copies Roblox made) of 300 to 2,164, and the eleventh was handed out free in a 2015 gift box. [Portrait of a Hero at ROBLOX HQ](/item/169448080) leads the family with a RAP of 28,970 R$ across 301 copies, where RAP means Recent Average Price, Roblox's smoothed average of what an item actually sells for.

**Quick answer:** Portrait of a Hero is an 11-item Roblox Limited series of wearable picture frames sold from 2014 to 2018, priced from 488 R$ to about 90,000 R$ on the resale market today, with supply running from 300 copies up to 108,752.

| Series at a glance | |
| --- | --- |
| Members tracked | 11 |
| Released | May 2014 to July 2018 |
| Original price | 1,500 or 2,000 R$ (one was free) |
| Copies per item | 300 to 108,752 |
| Highest RAP | 28,970 R$ |
| Cheapest copy on sale | 488 R$ |

Every frame here is a classic Limited, made by Roblox itself, which means it can be traded as well as resold. You can see where the whole family sits against the rest of Roblox's smaller classic categories on the [classic hair, shoulder and waist accessories collection](/collections/classic-accessories).

## What is the Portrait of a Hero series on Roblox?

Portrait of a Hero is a set of ornate frames worn on your avatar's waist, each one holding a picture of somewhere a hero might end up: the Alps, a carnival, a beach, the Colosseum, Roblox's own office. The joke lives in the item descriptions, which read like captions on a trophy wall. The ROBLOX HQ frame is described as "You're the hero of heroes. The admin of admins."

The [Roblox Wiki](https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/Portrait_of_a_Hero_%28series%29) dates the first frame, Portrait of a Hero in the Alps, to May 22, 2014, and the last one, Portrait of a Hero at the Beach, to July 13, 2018. Roblox never released them on a schedule. Three arrived across the summer of 2014, two in 2015, one at the end of 2016, three in the second half of 2017, and two in 2018. Then the line stopped.

Every paid frame went out as Limited U, short for Limited Unique, which means Roblox fixed the print size before release and stamped each copy with its own serial number. Roblox's item pages still flag all ten paid frames that way. If the difference between a Limited and a Limited U is new to you, the [Limited vs Limited U guide](/articles/limited-vs-limited-u-roblox) covers what the U changes about supply and serials.

Two details set individual frames apart. Carnival is catalogued as a hat while the other ten live in the waist slot, so it shows up in a different part of your avatar editor than its siblings. And the Colosseum frame, from March 2018, is the only one Roblox priced at 1,500 Robux; community accounts say its 500-copy stock sold out in under ten minutes.

## Every Portrait of a Hero Limited ranked by RAP

Here is the full line as of September 20, 2026, ordered by RAP. Copies means the total number that exist. The lowest ask is the cheapest copy a reseller currently has listed.

| Item | Released | Copies | RAP | Lowest ask |
| --- | --- | --- | ---: | ---: |
| ![](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/169448080?size=150) [Portrait of a Hero at ROBLOX HQ](/item/169448080) | Jul 2014 | 301 | 28,970 R$ | 32,000 R$ |
| ![](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/250394028?size=150) [Portrait of a Hero Crossing the Delaware](/item/250394028) | May 2015 | 300 | 27,150 R$ | 89,999 R$ |
| ![](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/1744356057?size=150) [Portrait of a Hero at the Beach](/item/1744356057) | Jul 2018 | 300 | 23,776 R$ | 29,999 R$ |
| ![](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/158066212?size=150) [Portrait of a Hero in the Alps](/item/158066212) | May 2014 | 303 | 20,200 R$ | 81,940 R$ |
| ![](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/162592142?size=150) [Portrait of a Hero at Carnival](/item/162592142) | Jun 2014 | 502 | 20,169 R$ | 20,169 R$ |
| ![](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/1492181189?size=150) [Portrait of a Hero at the Colosseum](/item/1492181189) | Mar 2018 | 501 | 14,597 R$ | 18,998 R$ |
| ![](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/904541305?size=150) [Portrait of a Hero Camping](/item/904541305) | Jul 2017 | 570 | 9,078 R$ | 10,999 R$ |
| ![](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/1191109087?size=150) [Portrait of a Hero on Thanksgiving](/item/1191109087) | Nov 2017 | 552 | 7,750 R$ | 9,385 R$ |
| ![](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/583651344?size=150) [Portrait of a Hero on a Tropical Vacation](/item/583651344) | Dec 2016 | 850 | 5,078 R$ | 5,499 R$ |
| ![](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/1213428661?size=150) [Portrait of a Hero on a Snow Day](/item/1213428661) | Dec 2017 | 2,164 | 3,237 R$ | 4,530 R$ |
| ![](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/331486631?size=150) [Portrait of a Hero in ROBLOX](/item/331486631) | Dec 2015 | 108,752 | 459 R$ | 488 R$ |

Read that table top to bottom and you are reading the copy counts in reverse. The four smallest prints take the top four spots, the 500-copy frames come next, and the 108,752-copy giveaway sits at the bottom. Supply explains almost the whole ranking, which is unusual for a Roblox series. Age barely matters: the 2018 Beach frame outranks the 2014 Carnival frame on 300 copies against 502.

Nine of the eleven are scarce enough to appear on the [Limiteds under 1,000 copies collection](/collections/limiteds-under-1000-copies). You can compare them against the rest of the market on the [items leaderboard](/items-leaderboard).

## Which Portrait of a Hero is worth the most?

![Portrait of a Hero at ROBLOX HQ](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/169448080?size=420)

Portrait of a Hero at ROBLOX HQ is the most valuable frame in the series, with a RAP of 28,970 R$ and 301 copies in circulation. It went on sale on July 31, 2014 for 2,000 Robux. According to the Roblox Wiki, the picture inside the frame is a shot of a player's in-game recreation of Roblox's San Mateo headquarters, which makes it a small piece of company history you cannot get anywhere else in the catalog.

It is also the easiest of the top four to actually buy. The cheapest listing sits at 32,000 R$, about 10% above RAP, while the frame directly below it in the ranking asks more than three times its own RAP. Someone who wants one frame from this family and a fair entry price tends to end up here.

## Why do the Alps and Delaware portraits ask so far above their RAP?

![Portrait of a Hero in the Alps](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/158066212?size=420)

Portrait of a Hero in the Alps has a RAP of 20,200 R$ and a cheapest listing of 81,940 R$, roughly four times that. Crossing the Delaware shows the same pattern, 27,150 R$ RAP against an 89,999 R$ ask. Both are 300-copy prints from Roblox's Limited U era, and in a market that thin the two numbers drift apart for a simple reason.

RAP only moves when a sale happens, and each sale drags it one tenth of the way toward the sale price. On an item that trades a few times a year, RAP can sit frozen near an old, low number for months while every holder willing to sell has already raised their price. The ask tells you what a seller wants today. The RAP is the residue of trades that may be a year old. Our [RAP explainer](/articles/what-is-rap-roblox) walks through the formula if you want to see how slowly it moves.

For a buyer, the practical read is that these two frames have no cheap entry. You pay the ask, or you wait for a holder to post a copy lower, and on 300-copy items that wait can be long. Crossing the Delaware carries some history too: community records tie its release to Roblox's Memorial Day 2015 sale, and its artwork is the Washington painting, which puts it in the same patriotic corner of the catalog as the items in our [Patriot series history](/articles/roblox-patriot-series-washingtons-hat).

## The free Portrait of a Hero and its 108,752 copies

![Portrait of a Hero in ROBLOX](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/331486631?size=420)

Portrait of a Hero in ROBLOX is the only member of the family that nobody paid Robux for. Its Roblox description says it came out of the Iconic Gift of the Creator on December 14, 2015, a gift box from that year's holiday giveaway. Community records say the box went to anyone who uploaded a game icon before December 8, 2015, which is how 108,752 copies came to exist against 300 for the frames people bought.

Roblox's item page marks it as a plain Limited, so it carries no serial number. It trades at 459 R$ RAP with a cheapest copy at 488 R$, and at that price it makes a fine first classic Limited for someone who wants the look without spending much. If the gift-box side of Roblox history interests you, the [mystery gifts guide](/articles/roblox-mystery-gift-boxes-history) covers the Giftsplosion events and what came out of them.

## Portrait of Genius: Einstein, the frame that came first

![Portrait of Genius: Einstein](https://img.rbxinvest.com/item/24727799?size=420)

Four years before the Alps frame, Roblox published [Portrait of Genius: Einstein](/item/24727799) on March 30, 2010, a hat that framed your avatar's face beside a caption about being a modern day Einstein. It sold for 250 Robux and 827 copies exist. The Roblox Wiki keeps it outside the Portrait of a Hero category and only notes that the two look similar, so treat the connection as a resemblance collectors spotted.

Its market looks nothing like the rest of the line. RAP sits at 4,342 R$ while the cheapest listing asks 50,000 R$, more than eleven times RAP. That gap is the signature of an item with almost no trading activity and one stubborn holder setting the only visible price.

## Are Portrait of a Hero Limiteds worth buying in 2026?

This family has three things going for it. Supply is genuinely small on the top four, every paid copy carries a serial number, and the whole line sits in a price band where a mistake costs a few thousand Robux. Against that, waist accessories are a quiet corner of the catalog, and these frames have never had the cultural pull of a fedora or a Dominus.

Run the fee math before you buy. Roblox charges a 30% marketplace fee when you resell a classic Limited, so you keep 70% of the sale price. Buy the Camping frame at its current 10,999 R$ ask, sell it later at 20,000 R$, and you take home 14,000 R$, a profit of about 3,000 R$ after the fee. Sell at 15,000 R$ and you keep 10,500 R$, a small loss. Break-even on a classic Limited resale lands at roughly 1.43 times what you paid.

Two more rules shape the trade. Reselling any Limited needs an active Roblox Plus subscription on your account, while buying one needs nothing. And a copy bought from a reseller carries a 7-day holding period before you can list it again, so plan on owning it for at least a week. The [holding periods guide](/articles/roblox-limited-holding-periods) has the full set of timers. To catch one of these frames listed below RAP, the [Deals feed](/deals) surfaces under-RAP listings as they appear, and it needs a signed-in account.

My read: the ROBLOX HQ and Beach frames are the two sensible entries, because their asks sit within about 30% of RAP while the Alps and Delaware copies are priced for a buyer who has to have them. The Snow Day frame at 4,530 R$ is the cheap way in for anyone who just likes the look. None of this is financial advice, and Limited prices fall as easily as they rise.

Copy counts, RAP and lowest asks come from RBX Invest catalog data cross-checked against Roblox's own item pages on September 20, 2026; release dates, the ROBLOX HQ artwork detail and the 2015 gift-box origin are community-documented on the Roblox Wiki, while Limited U status and original prices were confirmed on each item's Roblox listing.

## FAQ

### What is the Portrait of a Hero series in Roblox?

The Portrait of a Hero series is a line of 11 Roblox Limiteds shaped like ornate picture frames worn on the avatar's waist, released between May 2014 and July 2018. Each frame holds a picture of a different place, from the Alps to Roblox's own headquarters, and each carries a joke description about being "the hero of heroes".

### How many Portrait of a Hero items are there?

There are 11, and ten of them were sold for Robux. Those ten went out at 1,500 or 2,000 Robux each, in prints ranging from 300 to 2,164 copies. The eleventh, Portrait of a Hero in ROBLOX, was given away free in a December 2015 gift box and has 108,752 copies.

### Which Portrait of a Hero is the rarest?

Portrait of a Hero Crossing the Delaware and Portrait of a Hero at the Beach are the rarest, with 300 copies each. Portrait of a Hero at ROBLOX HQ has 301 and Portrait of a Hero in the Alps has 303, so three copies separate the top four.

### How much is Portrait of a Hero at ROBLOX HQ worth?

Portrait of a Hero at ROBLOX HQ has a RAP of 28,970 R$ as of September 20, 2026, and the cheapest copy listed for resale asks 32,000 R$. That makes it the most valuable frame in the series and one of the few where the asking price sits close to RAP.

### Can you still buy Portrait of a Hero Limiteds?

Yes, from other players. Every frame sold out years ago, so you buy one by opening its item page and purchasing the cheapest copy a reseller has listed. Asks today run from 488 R$ for the free giveaway frame up to about 90,000 R$ for Crossing the Delaware.

### Are Portrait of a Hero items Limited U?

Ten of the eleven are Limited U, meaning Roblox fixed the number of copies before release and gave each copy a serial number. The exception is Portrait of a Hero in ROBLOX, which Roblox's item page marks as a plain Limited with no serials, because it came out of a gift box.

### Why is Portrait of a Hero in ROBLOX so cheap?

Supply. It has 108,752 copies because Roblox handed it to everyone who uploaded a game icon in December 2015, while the paid frames printed a few hundred each. It trades at 459 R$ RAP with copies listed from 488 R$, making it the cheapest way to own a frame from this family.

### Does Roblox still make Portrait of a Hero items?

No. The last one, Portrait of a Hero at the Beach, went on sale in July 2018, and Roblox has not added a frame to the line since. Supply for the series is fixed, so from here only demand can move prices.

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- [Transient Harmonica: Roblox's 90-Minute Limited](https://rbxinvest.com/articles/transient-harmonica-roblox-history.md)
- [Roblox Necklace Limiteds: The Neck Accessory Market](https://rbxinvest.com/articles/necklace-limiteds-history-roblox.md)
- [Tough Guy Cap: Roblox's 25-Copy Limited Hat](https://rbxinvest.com/articles/tough-guy-cap-roblox-history.md)
- [Roblox Assassin Series: History, Copies and Values](https://rbxinvest.com/articles/assassin-series-history-roblox.md)
- [Roblox Summer Limiteds: History and Market Values](https://rbxinvest.com/articles/summer-limiteds-history-roblox.md)

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- [Limiteds listed below RAP right now](https://rbxinvest.com/deals.md)

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Source: [RBX Invest](https://rbxinvest.com/articles/portrait-of-a-hero-series-history-roblox) — independent Roblox Limited analytics, not affiliated with Roblox Corporation. Published 2026-09-20, last updated 2026-09-20. Figures quoted in the article were current when it was written; the item and creator pages it links to carry the live ones.