The Void Star series is a two-item family of Roblox Classic Limiteds built around a spiked crown with three gems, and it has one of the odder origin stories in the whole trading history of the platform: the original piece was a prize for solving riddles in a 2007 puzzle contest. The Void Star launched that way and later sold as a 20,000-Ticket catalog item before going Limited in 2010. Its retextured sibling, Red Void Star, arrived a decade later as a two-hour Black Friday flash sale. Both trade in the millions of RAP today despite the family never growing past two members.
How Did the Void Star Series Start?
On August 9, 2007, Roblox admin and Creative Director Shedletsky, the same staffer behind Sword Fights on the Heights, published three items called Mysterious Object I, II, and IV. Each cost 50 Tix, and each carried a haiku in its description hinting at what it would eventually become. The mystery boxes sold well enough that Shedletsky turned the idea into a real contest: Mysterious Object III wasn't for sale at all. Players had to solve a chain of riddles to earn it for free.
The riddle-solving stretched across roughly a week in mid-August 2007. Whoever cracked the puzzle chain received the Mysterious Object III gift, which unboxed into an item called The Void Star Gift Box. Opening that box revealed the crown that gives the whole series its name.
From Contest Prize to 20,000-Ticket Catalog Item
The Void Star didn't stay contest-exclusive for long. Roblox put it on general sale on September 5, 2007, priced at 20,000 Tickets, the pre-2016 secondary currency that Tixapalooza eventually retired. That was a steep price by 2007 standards, and the hat remained purchasable that way until May 1, 2010.
Roblox converted it to a tradeable Limited on August 4, 2010, closing out its sale with roughly 1,951 copies sold plus 15 copies awarded to the original contest winners, per community-documented catalog records. Our own data now tracks 2,112 total copies in circulation, live RAP at 3,723,207, and a lowest resale ask of 2,688,888, a discount to RAP that's unusual for an item this old and this recognizable.
Red Void Star: A Decade-Later Sequel
Red Void Star didn't show up until November 25, 2017, as part of that year's Black Friday sale. Roblox priced it at 50,000 Robux on a two-hour countdown timer, and only about 185 copies sold before the window closed. It's a straight retexture of the original crown, same silhouette, same three gems, swapped into a red colorway with a corrupted-file joke in its item description.
What makes Red Void Star's history unusual is the gap between going offsale and going Limited. Most items that eventually convert from offsale to tradeable do so within months or a couple of years. Red Void Star sat offsale for almost five years before Roblox flipped the switch on June 14, 2022. That's an unusually long wait, and it's part of why the item still catches new traders off guard when they discover a "recent" Limited with a 2017 release date.
Not financial advice, but that long offsale window is worth remembering any time you're sizing up a currently-offsale item as a future Limited candidate: Roblox's timeline on these conversions is not predictable, and a five-year wait is well within precedent.
Void Star Family at a Glance
Both items are thinly traded enough that a single sale can move RAP meaningfully, so treat these as reference points rather than a firm quote.
| Item | Released | Launch Price | Live RAP | Copies | Lowest Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Void Star | Sep 5, 2007 | 20,000 Tickets | 3,723,207 | 2,112 | 2,688,888 |
| Red Void Star | Nov 25, 2017 | 50,000 R$ | 2,879,848 | 183 | 10,000,000 |
That lowest-ask column tells its own story. The Void Star currently has a resale listing sitting below its RAP, a real entry point for a buyer willing to pay millions. Red Void Star has no such discount: its one visible ask sits at roughly 3.5x RAP, which is less a market price than a seller signaling they're not actually interested in parting with a copy at any reasonable number. With only 183 copies ever put into circulation and heavy hoarding among long-time holders, that kind of lopsided ask is what a genuinely illiquid Limited looks like in practice.
Why Does a Two-Item Family Carry This Much Weight?
Most of the series articles in this collection cover families with five, ten, sometimes sixteen variants. Void Star never grew past two, and that's arguably the point. A few things stack together here. The origin story is unusually strong even by Roblox standards: an actual puzzle contest run by a name-brand admin, not just a seasonal sale or a random drop. The crown design itself, alternating spikes with a central gem, has held up visually for nearly two decades without ever getting a mainstream recolor wave the way Domino Crowns or Sparkle Time Fedoras did. And because the family stayed at two items instead of expanding into a dozen recolors, neither piece ever got diluted the way larger families sometimes do when a popular original spawns cheaper siblings.
Red Void Star adds a second layer of scarcity on top of that: a 185-copy flash sale is a small run by any Limited's standard, closer to a modern grail drop than a standard catalog release.
Mind the Impostors
Search the current Roblox catalog for "Void Star" and you'll get dozens of results that have nothing to do with this family: UGC items like "Void Star Cat," "Korblox Celestial Void Star," and various "Void Star of Doom" recolors, most carrying RAP in the hundreds or low thousands, nowhere near the two originals. None of these are variants, homages recognized by the community, or otherwise connected to the 2007 series beyond borrowing the name. If you're screening the catalog or the items leaderboard for this family, the two asset IDs above are the only ones that matter.
Collector's Outlook
The Void Star family rewards patience more than speed. The original trades with enough volume that a motivated buyer can usually find an entry point near RAP, as the current sub-RAP ask shows. Red Void Star is a different animal: 183 copies, heavy long-term holding, and an ask book that doesn't reflect a real floor. Anyone chasing the red variant should expect to negotiate directly with a holder rather than click-buy a listing, and should size the position knowing it could take a while to exit. This isn't financial advice, and thinly-traded Limiteds like Red Void Star carry real liquidity risk regardless of how iconic the item looks in an inventory.
Traders watching for movement on either item can track live listings through the deal feed or manage an active ask on the Reseller Terminal.
FAQ
What is the Void Star series?
A two-item family of Roblox Classic Limiteds: The Void Star (2007) and Red Void Star (2017), both spiked crowns tied to a puzzle contest run by Roblox admin Shedletsky.
How did the original Void Star item start?
It began as the prize for the Mysterious Objects Riddles contest in August 2007, awarded to players who solved a chain of puzzles. Roblox then sold it publicly for 20,000 Tickets before converting it to a tradeable Limited in August 2010.
Is Red Void Star rarer than the original?
By copy count, yes. Roblox sold roughly 185 copies of Red Void Star during its two-hour 2017 Black Friday window, compared to roughly 1,966 copies plus later additions for the original Void Star's launch run.
Why did Red Void Star take so long to become a Limited?
It went offsale in 2017 but didn't convert to a tradeable Limited until June 14, 2022, a nearly five-year gap that's long even by the unpredictable standards of Roblox's offsale-to-Limited conversions.
Are other "Void Star" named items part of this series?
No. The Roblox catalog contains many unrelated UGC items using "Void Star" in their name. Only The Void Star and Red Void Star belong to the original 2007-2017 family.