Tixapalooza was the month-long sale Roblox ran in March and April 2016 to mark the end of Tickets (Tix), its second currency, and it left behind four Limiteds that are still trading today: Lord of the Tixeration, Tixvalk, Tix Shaggy, and Tix Bling. All four were originally sold for Tix only, went off-sale when the currency disappeared, and sat as ordinary catalog relics for years before Roblox flipped them into tradeable Limiteds between 2022 and 2025.
What Was Tix, and Why Did Roblox Remove It?
Tickets, almost always shortened to Tix, were Roblox's free secondary currency. Players earned them just by logging in and visiting games, and for years they let non-paying users buy avatar items and pay for game promotion without ever touching Robux. That made Tix the entry point into the catalog for an entire generation of players who never bought Premium (then called Builders Club).
On March 15, 2016, Roblox CEO David Baszucki announced that Tickets would be discontinued within thirty days. Roblox framed the removal as a simplification move rather than a revenue grab, citing "product simplicity, botting, and not incentivizing certain behaviors" as the main drivers. Daily ticket rewards and per-visit payouts stopped immediately, and on April 14, 2016, Tickets were pulled from the site entirely, along with the Trade Currency system that had let players convert between Tix and Robux. The Roblox Wiki's Ticket entry still documents the fallout: clothing groups that ran on Tix income collapsed, and a wave of small developers who relied on ticket-funded ads lost a key promotion channel.
What Was Tixapalooza?
Rather than just switch the currency off, Roblox ran a farewell sale called Tixapalooza from March 15 to April 13, 2016. Roblox released one commemorative, Tix-reskinned item per day for the length of the event, in descending order of price, so the priciest pieces appeared first and the cheapest landed right before the currency's final removal on April 14. Non-Premium players who couldn't afford the big-ticket pieces got their own consolation track: a weekly gift for completing simple tasks, running from March 16 through April 11.
Most of the roughly thirty Tixapalooza items were cheap novelties that nobody remembers today. Four of them turned into something else entirely.
The Four Limiteds Tixapalooza Left Behind
Each of these was purchasable only with Tickets, went off-sale the moment Tix disappeared, and then sat dormant, tradeable by nobody, for anywhere from six to nine years before Roblox converted it into a proper Limited. That conversion date matters as much as the release date: an item that went Limited in 2022 has had four extra years to accumulate scarcity premium over one that only unlocked in 2025.
| Item | Released | Original Tix Price | Went Limited | Live RAP | Copies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tix Shaggy | Mar 21, 2016 | 375,000 Tix | Jul 4, 2022 | 1,677,088 | 51 |
| Lord of the Tixeration | Mar 17, 2016 | 1,500,000 Tix | Nov 25, 2022 | 1,800,807 | 47 |
| Tixvalk | Mar 20, 2016 | 500,000 Tix | May 31, 2022 | 1,296,575 | 138 |
| Tix Bling | Mar 22, 2016 | 250,000 Tix | Nov 21, 2025 | 32,459 | 1,194 |
That table is sorted by trader consensus street value rather than raw RAP, and the order isn't what the original Tix price tags would suggest. Lord of the Tixeration cost four times as many Tix as Tix Shaggy at launch, and it still carries the higher RAP today, but consensus among traders puts Tix Shaggy ahead of it. Tix Shaggy only ever sold 40 copies before going off-sale and has just 51 in circulation now, a genuinely thin market where RAP lags what a buyer actually has to pay. Tixvalk, with closer to three times that supply, trades more predictably and sits below both.
Tix Bling is the outlier for a different reason: it didn't go Limited until November 2025, eight months before this article, with 1,194 copies unlocked at once. A supply that size, released that recently, hasn't had time to develop the kind of scarcity premium the other three built up over years. Its RAP tells the real story here without much distortion.
Legendary Grails That Also Wore a Tix Price Tag
Tixapalooza wasn't the only place Tix showed up on high-value items. Before Roblox standardized on Robux-only pricing, several of the platform's best-known Limiteds were sold, at least for a stretch, for Tickets rather than Robux. A Roblox developer forum bug report on missing historical prices lists Dominus Pittacium at 5,000,000 Tix, Blackvalk at 1,000,000 Tix, and the original Valkyrie Helm at 30,000 Tix, alongside the mass-market original Shaggy at just 50 Tix.
| Item | Original Tix Price | Live RAP | Copies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackvalk | 1,000,000 Tix | 7,733,715 | 267 |
| Dominus Pittacium | 5,000,000 Tix | 6,936,989 | 38 |
| Valkyrie Helm | 30,000 Tix | 238,976 | 12,523 |
| Shaggy | 50 Tix | 1,344 | 2,071,899 |
Dominus Pittacium's mint-condition Tix price was five times higher than Blackvalk's, yet trader consensus values Blackvalk above it today. That's a demand story more than a Tix story: Blackvalk's family has held collector attention harder than Pittacium's corner of the Dominus series, and original mint price has never been a reliable predictor of where a Limited sits decades later. The original Valkyrie Helm, covered in full in our Valkyrie Helm history, and the original Shaggy from our Shaggy series deep dive both moved a huge number of copies at low Tix prices and remain liquid, low-value staples rather than grails, which is exactly what you'd expect from items that cost next to nothing and sold to millions of accounts.
The same bug report lists a run of everyday accessories, Kuddle E. Koala, Zipper Cap, a Monstars Visor, a Hanukkah Beanie, a Reindeer Cap, a Super Happy Elf Cap, and a Candy Corn Knit hat, all originally priced between 10 and 150 Tix. None of those are collector items now. They're proof that Tix wasn't a niche currency reserved for premium releases; it priced the cheap end of the catalog too, for anyone who never spent a dollar on Robux.
Why the Original Tix Prices Don't Show Up Anymore
If you pull up any of these items on Roblox today, you won't find the original Tix price listed anywhere on the page. That's not an oversight limited to obscure items; Roblox's own developer forum has an open bug report about it, and staff confirmed the report was routed to their team for review. Part of the problem is structural: Tix never had a fixed, official conversion rate to Robux, so there's no clean way to display a "historical price in Robux" the way Roblox shows for old Robux-priced items. Showing a raw number in a currency that stopped existing a decade ago, with no equivalent today, creates more confusion than it resolves for anyone who didn't trade during that era.
Why Any of This Matters to a Trader Today
None of these eight items are going to move because of their Tix backstory alone. What the backstory does is explain part of why they're scarce in the first place. The four Tixapalooza Limiteds spent years as dead catalog entries, untradeable and unremarkable, before Roblox flipped a switch and turned them into Limiteds with fixed, permanent supply. Copy counts you see in the table above are final; there is no path for Roblox to mint more Tix Shaggy or more Lord of the Tixeration, because the currency that priced them is gone. That kind of supply certainty is rare even among classic Limiteds, most of which sold for as long as demand held up rather than for a fixed multi-week window that ended the day a currency was deleted.
If you're weighing a position in any of these four, treat the copy counts and live RAP in the table as your starting point, not the Tix price they once wore, and expect these to trade about as often as any other thin, story-driven Limited. This isn't financial advice, and item-specific history is only one input into a buying decision. You can track live movement on all four through the deal feed or manage open asks for them through the Reseller Terminal.
FAQ
What was Tix on Roblox?
Tix, short for Tickets, was Roblox's free secondary currency. Players earned it automatically by logging in and visiting games, and it let non-paying users buy catalog items and promote games without spending Robux. Roblox removed it entirely on April 14, 2016, following a March 15 announcement from CEO David Baszucki.
What was Tixapalooza?
Tixapalooza was Roblox's farewell sale for Tickets, running from March 15 to April 13, 2016. Roblox released one Tix-priced commemorative item per day, most expensive first, ending right before the currency's removal.
Are Tixapalooza items tradeable today?
Four of them are: Lord of the Tixeration, Tixvalk, Tix Shaggy, and Tix Bling. All four were off-sale and untradeable for years after Tixapalooza ended, then converted into permanent, fixed-supply Limiteds by Roblox between 2022 and 2025.
Why did Blackvalk and Dominus Pittacium have Tix prices?
Before Roblox moved fully to Robux-only pricing, several major Limiteds, including Blackvalk, Dominus Pittacium, and the original Valkyrie Helm, were sold for Tickets rather than Robux for at least part of their catalog run. This surfaced publicly through a Roblox developer forum bug report about missing historical price data.
Why can't I see the original Tix price on these items anymore?
Roblox never established an official Tix-to-Robux conversion rate, so there's no accurate way to display a historical Tix price in today's currency. A developer forum bug report on this exact issue was acknowledged by Roblox staff and is still under review.