Roblox 2016 Halloween Limiteds: All 4 Items and Values

Roblox published four classic Limiteds in October 2016, down from eleven the year before and nineteen in 2012. A Limited is an avatar item sold in a fixed number of copies that owners can resell, and a classic Limited is one Roblox made itself. Only two of those four went on sale as Limiteds during the month. The famous one is Dominus Praefectus, which came out of a 31,000 Robux gift box and carries a RAP of 854,798 across 1,306 copies in RBX Invest catalog data as of October 2026. RAP stands for recent average price, Roblox's smoothed average of an item's whole sale history. Between them the four items minted 325,708 copies, and 321,672 of those belong to one 200 Robux shoulder pet.

Quick answer: Four classic Limiteds carry an October 2016 catalog date, and all four are sold out at Roblox today. Dominus Praefectus leads at an 854,798 RAP, followed by Sword of the Eternal Abyss at 13,788, Zombie Attack Bunny at 10,582 and Shoulder Shark Cat at 580. Roblox ran its 2016 Halloween event, Hallow's Eve 2016, on free in-game prizes and paid gift boxes, so the event itself produced almost no Limiteds.

What were Roblox's 2016 Halloween Limiteds? Four items with an October 2016 catalog date

Below is every classic Limited whose asset was created in October 2016, ordered by what traders agree each one is worth. Lowest ask means the cheapest copy a reseller has listed right now. On a class this small the consensus order and the RAP order line up exactly, which saves you some guesswork.

Item	Catalog date	Original price	Copies	RAP	Lowest ask
Dominus Praefectus	October 22	31,000 R$ gift	1,306	854,798	815,000
Sword of the Eternal Abyss	October 28	1,000 R$	1,530	13,788	12,500
Zombie Attack Bunny	October 14	250 R$	1,200	10,582	12,998
Shoulder Shark Cat	October 28	200 R$	321,672	580	630

Catalog date is the day Roblox created the asset file, which sometimes runs a few days ahead of the public sale. Two of these four reached players as Limiteds in October 2016. Dominus Praefectus arrived as a gift-box prize and became a Limited the following May. Shoulder Shark Cat spent nearly six years as an ordinary catalog item before it went Limited in 2022.

Why did Roblox publish only four Limiteds in October 2016? The event went free

October 2016 broke a pattern that had held since the early 2010s. Each previous Halloween brought a batch of paid, fixed-stock drops. In 2016 Roblox put its Halloween energy into a sponsored in-game event and a ladder of paid gift boxes, and the items those produced had unlimited stock.

Read that last row carefully. The item count fell to four while the copy count jumped past 325,000, and a single mass-market shoulder pet accounts for about 99% of it. The scarce end of the Halloween catalog had nearly dried up, while the cheap end was being printed in numbers Roblox had never used on an October item before.

The event itself was Hallow's Eve 2016, which ran from October 18 to November 2 and was sponsored by the Nerf toy brand, according to the Roblox Wiki's event page. Players earned items like the NERF Zombie Mask and the Hallows Eve Vampire Mask by completing objectives in Freeze Tag, Flood Escape and Bloktoberfest. Those prizes were free and unlimited, so none of them trade today. A prequel event, the Trick or Treat Countdown, ran from October 4 to 17 and sold a ladder of gift boxes starting at 50 Robux.

Dominus Praefectus: the 31,000 Robux gift box that became a Limited

The top rung of that gift ladder was the Donum Praefectus, a 31,000 Robux box sold on a four-day timer from October 13 to 17, 2016. On October 24 it opened to reveal Dominus Praefectus, the tenth hat in Roblox's flagship horned-hood family. The Roblox Wiki's page for the gift records 1,306 purchases before it went off sale, and our catalog shows exactly 1,306 copies of the hat in existence, so the gift count and the hat count agree.

That hat did not become tradeable right away. It went Limited on May 27, 2017, seven months after the reveal, and it has traded ever since. At 1,306 copies it sits near the bottom of its family by scarcity, which is why you can buy one for a fraction of what the rarer Domini cost. Its 133,932 favorites tell you the demand is real anyway: it's the Dominus most players can actually picture owning. The full family story, including where Praefectus ranks against the other ten, is in our Dominus series history, and live prices for every Dominus sit on the Dominus collection page.

Spending 31,000 Robux on a sealed box in 2016 was a gamble on an unknown prize. It paid off. The cheapest copy on the market today asks 815,000 Robux.

Zombie Attack Bunny and Sword of the Eternal Abyss: the month's only Limited U drops

The two items that went on sale as Limiteds in October 2016 were both Limited U drops. Limited U is short for Limited Unique: Roblox fixed the copy count before the sale and stamped a serial number on every copy, in the order people bought them. Our guide to Limited versus Limited U covers the difference in full.

Zombie Attack Bunny

Released October 14 at 250 Robux, this one is gear: a zombie rabbit that follows you around and attacks anyone nearby. It sold 1,200 copies. Ten years later it carries a 10,582 RAP with the cheapest copy at 12,998, so the lowest ask sits above RAP. That gap usually means sellers are holding firm and recent sales have been scarce, which is typical for old gear with a small float. Float is the number of copies actually listed for sale at any moment, and on items like this it can be a handful.

Sword of the Eternal Abyss

This is the one with the story. Roblox listed it at 1,000 Robux with 10,000 copies in stock on a five-hour timer. When the timer ran out only 1,530 copies had sold, per the Roblox Wiki, so the supply that exists today is the supply players happened to buy in a single evening. An accidental scarcity like that is worth noticing: nobody designed a 1,530-copy sword, the clock just beat the demand. It trades at a 13,788 RAP with the cheapest copy listed at 12,500, giving it the highest RAP of the three non-Dominus items. You'll find it alongside the rest of the blade market on the swords collection page.

Shoulder Shark Cat: the 200 Robux pet that waited six years to go Limited

Shoulder Shark Cat went on sale October 28, 2016 at 200 Robux with no quantity cap, and it stayed on sale until July 2022. By then 321,672 copies existed. Roblox pulled it off sale and flipped it to Limited status the next day, which handed the market a tradeable item with a third of a million copies.

Supply that size caps the price hard. It trades at a 580 RAP with the cheapest copy at 630 Robux, and that's roughly where it has lived since. The item is genuinely popular: 104,063 players have favorited it. There are simply more copies than there are buyers at any price worth chasing. It's a clean lesson in what copy count does to a Limited, and you can see the same effect across the classic shoulder accessories collection.

What are the 2016 Halloween items worth today?

Three of the four cost real money to buy now, and one of them costs a lot. Dominus Praefectus asks 815,000 Robux at the floor. The two gear Limiteds sit in the 12,500 to 13,000 band, which puts them within reach of a mid-sized portfolio. Shoulder Shark Cat is pocket change at 630.

If you're shopping this class, the gear is the interesting part. Both Zombie Attack Bunny and Sword of the Eternal Abyss have supply under 1,600 copies, both come from a month Roblox has never repeated, and neither has the kind of print run that caps a price. The risk is liquidity: thin old gear can sit unsold for weeks, and the lowest ask on the Bunny already runs above its RAP, so you'd be paying a premium over the item's recent trading history. Check the current spread on the items leaderboard before you commit, and compare it against what the rest of the Halloween market is doing in our guide to whether Roblox Halloween Limiteds rise in October.

For the year before this one, with eleven items and a very different shape, see our breakdown of the 2015 Halloween Limiteds.

None of this is financial advice. Limiteds are virtual items, prices move, and you should only spend Robux you're comfortable losing.

Figures in this article come from RBX Invest catalog data as of October 13, 2026, with release and event history from the Roblox Wiki and tradeability rules from Roblox's marketplace documentation at create.roblox.com/docs/marketplace.

FAQ

How many Limiteds did Roblox release for Halloween 2016?

Four classic Limiteds carry an October 2016 catalog date, and only two of them went on sale as Limiteds that month. That's the smallest October class of the 2012 to 2016 run, down from eleven in 2015 and nineteen in 2012.

What is the most valuable 2016 Halloween Limited?

Dominus Praefectus, by a wide margin. It carries an 854,798 RAP across 1,306 copies in RBX Invest catalog data as of October 2026, with the cheapest copy listed at 815,000 Robux. The next item down, Sword of the Eternal Abyss, trades near 13,788.

How did people get Dominus Praefectus?

They bought the Donum Praefectus, a sealed gift box Roblox sold for 31,000 Robux on a four-day timer from October 13 to 17, 2016. It opened on October 24 to reveal the hat. The Roblox Wiki records 1,306 gift purchases, which matches the 1,306 copies in our catalog today.

Did the Hallow's Eve 2016 event hand out Limiteds?

No. Hallow's Eve 2016 ran from October 18 to November 2 as a Nerf-sponsored in-game event, and its prizes were free items with unlimited stock earned by completing objectives in featured games. Those prizes can't be resold or traded. The paid gift boxes sold alongside it produced one item that later went Limited: Dominus Praefectus.

Why does Shoulder Shark Cat have 321,672 copies?

Because Roblox sold it as an ordinary catalog item at 200 Robux from October 2016 until July 2022, with no quantity cap. Every copy sold in those six years counts toward the supply. Roblox converted it to a Limited in July 2022, and that huge copy count is why it trades near 600 Robux today.

Can you still buy 2016 Halloween Limiteds from Roblox?

No. All four show zero copies remaining at Roblox, so every purchase happens on the resale market or through a trade with another player. Lowest asks run from 630 Robux for Shoulder Shark Cat to 815,000 for Dominus Praefectus.

Are 2016 Halloween Limiteds tradeable?

Yes. Roblox's marketplace documentation states that Roblox-created Limiteds are the tradeable ones, and all four of these were made by Roblox. Trading needs an active Roblox Plus subscription on both accounts, and purchases carry a holding period before the item can be resold.

Why did Sword of the Eternal Abyss only sell 1,530 of 10,000 copies?

The sale ran on a five-hour timer and demand didn't fill the stock before it expired, according to the Roblox Wiki. Roblox never restocked it, so the 1,530 copies that sold that evening are the entire supply. That accident is the reason a 1,000 Robux gear item from 2016 trades above 12,000 today.