Roblox Limiteds of 2009: 196 Items, 24.9M R$ of RAP

Roblox published 196 classic Limiteds in 2009, and they hold 24,933,672 Robux of RAP between them today. A Limited is an item Roblox stopped selling after a fixed number of copies went out, which is what lets owners resell and trade those copies afterwards, and RAP, short for recent average price, is Roblox's smoothed running average of an item's whole sale history. Trader consensus puts the 96-copy Darkheart at the top of the year, Red Tango carries the highest RAP at 4,588,638 R$, and the first Limited ever sold with a fixed stock came out that October: Roblox released the Green Bow Tie on the 5th with a catalog description that still reads "The first limited edition item ever! Own a piece of history."

Quick answer: Roblox's 2009 Limiteds are 196 items with a combined RAP of 24,933,672 Robux and a median of 8,494 R$. October 2009 alone produced 47 of them and about half the year's total value, because that is the month Roblox switched on fixed-stock Limited U releases. Darkheart, Illumina, Red Tango, The Crown of Roses and Clockwork's Shades all come from this one year.

What were Roblox's 2009 Limiteds? 196 items, all made by Roblox itself

Roblox made every one of them. There was no community-made Limited in 2009, so the whole year is what traders call classic Limiteds: items with Roblox listed as the creator, and the only Limiteds the player-to-player trade system accepts today. The split with community-made items is covered in our guide to classic Limiteds versus UGC Limiteds.

2009 is also where the catalog stopped being hats and started being a whole avatar. The two years before it were almost entirely headwear: 2007 shipped 51 Limited hats, one face accessory and one shoulder accessory, and 2008 shipped 45 hats and one face accessory.

Every category below the hats is a 2009 first. Limited gear, Limited faces, Limited neck accessories, Limited hair and the year's single Limited back accessory all begin here. The 20 gear items and 12 faces hold 10,639,999 R$ of RAP between them, slightly more than all 141 hats hold. Browse those lines on the classic gear collection and the classic Limited faces collection.

Copy counts were large. The median 2009 Limited shows 1,428 copies, so most of the year stayed common: 100 of the 196 sit below a 10,000 R$ RAP and 28 sit below 2,000 R$. The money is concentrated in 18 items with 100 copies or fewer, and those 18 are nearly the whole story of the year.

Why did October 2009 produce half the year's value? Limited U started that month

October 2009 holds 47 of the year's 196 Limiteds and 12,847,060 R$ of its 24,933,672 R$ of RAP. One month, about half the value. Nothing else in 2009 comes close: the next busiest month, December, holds 38 items worth 869,155 R$ together.

The reason is the release format. Limited U, short for limited unique, means Roblox sells a fixed number of copies at a fixed price and stamps each copy with its own serial number, counting down as the stock sells. Once the stock is gone the only way in is the resale market. The community-maintained Roblox Wiki dates the format's arrival to the first week of October 2009 and names the Green Bow Tie as the first release, which matches both the item's own catalog description and the 5 October creation date on our records. For how serials work and why a low one matters, see our guides to Limited versus Limited U and Roblox Limited serial numbers.

Look at what Roblox put through that new pipe in its first month. The Green Bow Tie on 5 October at 100 Robux with 100 copies. Illumina and Red Tango on 7 October. Darkheart on 13 October. The Crown of Roses on 29 October at 2,947 Robux. Four of the six items in the entire year with a RAP above a million Robux were created in October 2009, the other two being The Wanwood Crown from April and Clockwork's Shades from June.

Which 2009 Roblox Limiteds are worth the most? Darkheart leads on trader consensus

These are the fifteen most valuable Limiteds Roblox released in 2009, ordered by trader consensus on what a copy is worth today. Lowest ask means the cheapest copy currently listed for resale. The copies column counts what the catalog shows now, which sits below the number Roblox originally sold on most of these, because fifteen years of deleted and moderated accounts take copies out of circulation permanently.

Item	Released	Copies	Launch price	RAP	Lowest ask
Darkheart	13 Oct 2009	96	2,000 R$	1,800,000 R$	24,500,000 R$
Red Tango	7 Oct 2009	92	500 R$	4,588,638 R$	9,999,999,999 R$
The Wanwood Crown	16 Apr 2009	10	Contest prize	2,442,902 R$	6,767,420,420 R$
The Crown of Roses	29 Oct 2009	45	2,947 R$	2,119,359 R$	9,999,999,999 R$
Gaze of Socom1880	17 Aug 2009	31	1,000 R$	376,064 R$	618,033,988 R$
Illumina	7 Oct 2009	93	5,000 R$	2,632,887 R$	3,799,999 R$
Steampunk Aetherspectacles	11 Jul 2009	83	2,500 R$	337,200 R$	5,200,000 R$
Gold ROBLOX Music Video Award	14 Mar 2009	52	Contest prize	791,776 R$	6,000,000 R$
Cultural Item	13 Aug 2009	60	300 R$	243,029 R$	3,000,000 R$
Green Bow Tie	5 Oct 2009	96	100 R$	472,013 R$	3,333,333 R$
Clockwork's Shades	13 Jun 2009	1,418	19,358 R$	1,888,162 R$	1,668,990 R$
Mighty Mask of Zeus	30 Jul 2009	44	4,001 R$	272,833 R$	9,999,999,999 R$
Red Crown of Ozymandias	3 Apr 2009	213	100,000 Tix	294,666 R$	1,100,000 R$
Eyes of Azurewrath	13 Nov 2009	111	900 R$	508,637 R$	3,750,000 R$
Helm of the Great Tree	16 Apr 2009	106	Contest prize	255,991 R$	1,949,999 R$

One launch price in that table is not in Robux at all. The Red Crown of Ozymandias cost 100,000 Tickets, the second currency Roblox ran alongside Robux for years, which is why our records hold no Robux launch price for it. The Tix era items are a small corner of the catalog.

Those asks in the hundreds of millions and the billions are placeholder prices from owners who do not want to sell, which is normal at this end of the market and explained in our piece on Limiteds listed for billions. Treat them as a sign the owner will not sell, and price off RAP and recent sales.

A gem, in trading talk, is one of these scarce high-value Limiteds. The value order and the RAP order disagree here, and the gap is worth understanding. Five 2009 items carry a higher RAP than Darkheart, yet traders put Darkheart first. RAP updates by one tenth of the difference on every sale, so on an item where 96 copies change hands a few times a year the number lags the market badly. Thin markets produce stale RAP, and the thinner the item the more you should trust what sellers actually ask over what RAP says. Our explainer on what RAP is walks through the formula.

Most of these items belong to lines with their own deep dives: the Illumina and Darkheart story, the SFOTH sword series, the Clockwork line, the Wanwood series, the Ozymandias series, the Azurewrath series, the Elemental Helm series and the bow tie series.

Darkheart: a 2,000-Robux sword that became the year's consensus top item

Roblox published Darkheart on 13 October 2009 at 2,000 Robux. Our catalog counts 96 copies today and a RAP of 1,800,000 R$, with the cheapest listed copy at 24,500,000 R$. It is a black retexture of the Linked Sword and part of the SFOTH IV sword family, the blades lifted out of Sword Fight on the Heights IV, and in game it heals the wielder for part of the damage it deals.

What makes it the year's consensus leader is a tiny float plus a name every long-time player knows. Float means the copies actually available to buy, as opposed to the ones parked in long-dormant inventories. With 96 in existence and most of those parked, a buyer has very little to choose from, and that is the condition under which asks run far ahead of RAP.

Illumina: the sparkling counterpart, 93 copies and a live ask

Illumina went up on 7 October 2009 at 5,000 Robux, among the highest launch prices of the year. Its RAP is 2,632,887 R$, higher than Darkheart's, and its lowest ask of 3,799,999 R$ is the most reachable number anywhere in the year's top six. Of the 2009 gems, it is the one with a genuine copy listed today.

That matters more than it sounds. An asking price you can actually hit is what separates an investable item from a wall poster. If you are watching the 2009 cohort, Illumina and Clockwork's Shades are the two that trade.

Clockwork's Shades: 2009's priciest launch, and the year's odd one out

Clockwork's Shades went on sale on 13 June 2009 at 19,358 Robux, an absurd number for a pair of sunglasses at the time and the highest 2009 launch price by a wide margin. The item sat on sale for years afterwards, came back during several later sale events, and only became a Limited in May 2013, which is why it shows 1,418 copies where the rest of this table shows double and triple digits.

It is the exception that explains the rule for this whole year series. These are the Limiteds Roblox created in 2009, and a few became Limiteds much later, when Roblox pulled them off sale: the Gold ROBLOX Music Video Award in January 2010, the Cultural Item in April 2011, the Mighty Mask of Zeus in February 2015. The creation date tells you how old the item is. The limited date tells you when the market for it opened.

How does 2009 compare with other Roblox release years? Mid-table on the typical item

This is every year from 2007 to 2018 by item count, median RAP and combined RAP.

2009 sits mid-table on the typical item. Its 8,494 R$ median is well under 2010's 15,757 R$ and 2007's 14,802 R$, and its combined RAP is less than half of what 2010 or 2011 hold. The year earns its place at the top end: six millionaires, a 10-copy crown, and the two most famous swords on the platform.

Part of the median gap is the size of the print runs, meaning how many copies Roblox sold. A 1,428-copy median means a lot of 2009 hats went to thousands of avatars and stayed common, while 2010 and 2011 mixed in far more small drops. Our year-by-year comparison, are older Roblox Limiteds worth more, sets the whole curve out, and Roblox Limiteds of 2010 picks the story up the following January.

Which 2009 Limiteds gained the most on their launch price? A 5-Robux pair of glasses

Eight items from 2009 have multiplied their launch price more than a thousand times over. These are the six biggest, and all six came out in October.

Item	Released	Copies	Launch price	RAP	Gain on launch
Red Tango	7 Oct 2009	92	500 R$	4,588,638 R$	9,177x
Crazy Glasses	7 Oct 2009	95	5 R$	41,105 R$	8,221x
Green Bow Tie	5 Oct 2009	96	100 R$	472,013 R$	4,720x
Halloween Beanie	7 Oct 2009	239	15 R$	54,554 R$	3,637x
zOMG Hat Selling!	1 Oct 2009	488	27 R$	85,912 R$	3,182x
Ruby Eye	12 Oct 2009	692	45 R$	58,813 R$	1,307x

Those multiples are real and a little unfair to the rest of the catalog, because the base is so small. A 5-Robux pair of Crazy Glasses only has to reach 41,105 R$ to look like an 8,000x trade. The pattern is the useful part: the cheap October 2009 drops with roughly a hundred copies outran the expensive ones. Scarcity did the work and the entry price barely mattered.

Reselling a classic Limited today costs you a 30% marketplace fee, so a seller keeps 70% of the sale price. Break-even on a classic resale is therefore about 1.43 times what you paid. None of this is financial advice, and virtual item prices can fall as fast as they rise.

What should a collector do with the 2009 cohort now?

Three honest reads on this year.

The gem tier is mostly uninvestable, and that is fine. Darkheart, Red Tango, The Wanwood Crown, The Crown of Roses and the Mighty Mask of Zeus have no genuine ask between them right now. Follow their RAP on the items leaderboard and in the most expensive Limiteds collection, and you will buy one roughly when an owner decides to sell.

The faces need a caveat. Red Tango and Eyes of Azurewrath were 2D face Limiteds until Roblox replaced classic faces one for one with animated versions in early 2026, finishing in March. Serials and resale carried over, but prices fell hard through the months that followed, which we tracked in the Limited face value decline. A RAP figure on a face item is partly a memory of the market before that change.

The middle of the year is where a normal budget goes. Below the top fifteen, 100 of the year's 196 items sit under a 10,000 R$ RAP, and that is where the tradable supply of the year lives, with the kind of 2009 silhouette that still reads as old on an avatar. Those show up regularly in the Deals feed when someone lists one under RAP, and the classic hats collection and under 100 copies collection are the two screens worth keeping open.

Figures in this article come from RBX Invest catalog data as of November 2026, with release mechanics from Roblox's marketplace documentation and item release history cross-checked against the community-maintained Roblox Wiki.

FAQ

How many Limiteds did Roblox release in 2009?

Roblox released 196 classic Limiteds in 2009, holding 24,933,672 Robux of RAP between them as of November 2026. That is 141 hats, 20 gear items, 17 face accessories, 12 faces, 3 neck accessories, 2 hair accessories and 1 back accessory.

What was the first Roblox Limited U item?

The Green Bow Tie, released on 5 October 2009 at 100 Robux with 100 copies, is documented as the first Limited U release. Its own Roblox catalog description reads "The first limited edition item ever! Own a piece of history." Limited U means Roblox sold a fixed stock at a fixed price and gave every copy its own serial number.

What is the most valuable Roblox Limited from 2009?

Darkheart leads 2009 on trader consensus, with 96 copies and a cheapest listing of 24,500,000 Robux. Red Tango holds the highest RAP of the year at 4,588,638 R$. The two disagree because RAP lags on items that trade only a few times a year.

How much did Illumina and Darkheart cost at launch?

Illumina cost 5,000 Robux on 7 October 2009 and Darkheart cost 2,000 Robux on 13 October 2009. Both were sold with a fixed stock of 100 copies, and our catalog counts 93 Illuminas and 96 Darkhearts today after fifteen years of account deletions.

Why is October 2009 so important to Roblox collectors?

October 2009 is when Roblox switched on fixed-stock Limited U releases, and 47 of the year's 196 Limiteds came out that month, carrying 12,847,060 R$ of the year's RAP. Four of the six 2009 items with a RAP above a million Robux were created in October.

Can you still buy 2009 Roblox Limiteds?

Yes, through the resale market, though the top items are mostly listed at placeholder prices in the hundreds of millions or billions of Robux, which signals that the owner does not want to sell. Illumina and Clockwork's Shades are the two 2009 gems that regularly have a genuine ask, and 100 of the year's 196 items sit under a 10,000 R$ RAP.

Does a 2009 creation date mean the item went Limited in 2009?

No. The creation date is when Roblox made the item; some 2009 items became Limiteds years later, when Roblox pulled them off sale. Clockwork's Shades went on sale in June 2009 and only became a Limited in May 2013, and the Mighty Mask of Zeus waited until February 2015.

What fees apply if I resell a 2009 Limited?

A classic Limited resale carries a 30% marketplace fee, so you keep 70% of the sale price and need about 1.43 times your cost to break even. You also need an active Roblox Plus subscription on your own account to sell, and after buying a resale copy there is a holding period, the wait before you are allowed to list it, of up to 7 days.