St. Patrick's Day Sale 2013!

This year for St. Patrick's Day, ROBLOX did quite a lot of St. Patrick's themed things in the catalog. Without further ado, here is a recap for those who missed out on this occasion or were interested in knowing exactly everything that happened.

Day 1

The first day of the sale was about discounted items, gear, and a surprise treasure chest opening. Green Wizard Hat of Vitae, Neon Green Shuttershades, Checkered Neon Green Fedora, Green Hood, and the Emerald Horned One are all green hats and because of this they were all discounted at 17% off for a limited time. (St. Patrick's is on the 17th of March.) Personally, 17% off an item isn't really that much, but hey, at least it was some discounted items. This is the first time ROBLOX has discounted items for St. Patrick's Day. A few hours later came the gear. The first gear item released was the Fairy Axe priced at 350 robux, which relates to the fantasy elements of Ireland such as the Leprechauns and Fairies. A few minutes later the Leprechaun Harp priced at 250 robux was released. It has a very complex script, and with it you can create tunes to impress your friends. Later that night the Leprechaun Vine Scroll priced at 300 robux was released. This gear is very useful, but it has the same script as the classic Vine Staff, so not really creative. The final gear released was the Leprechaun Lucky Sword and Shield, originally 650 robux but unexpectedly went offsale after the weekend. This gear is probably the best out of them all, as it can occasionally deal massive damage. However, none of these gears were limited, which was a real shame.

 

The last event of the day was the release of the first St. Patrick's retexture. Kilty McJig's 8-Bit Fedora is a nice looking retexture (more like recolor) by DarkGenex of the 8-Bit Fedora. When the hat was first released, it was offsale and multiple users got a copy of it. The community couldn't figure out what happened until after a few minutes, when suddenly it came to realization: BrightEyes' Treasure Chest had finally opened for the 6th time after two years. If you don't know, BrightEyes' Treasure Chest is a classic limited item that has a lot of demand for the fact that it rarely gives the owner of the hat a prize hat. Because of this, the counterpart to BrightEyes' Treasure Chest, Telamon's Mystery Box, has a lot of demand again because of the fact that it might open soon. Kilty McJig's 8-Bit Fedora looks good with many green hats, and has a likely probability of going limited in the future. The only problem? The 8-Bit Fedora's and this fedora's hat placement is sort of weird, as the hat is worn on a tilt.

Day 2

This day was somewhat of a letdown. Only two retextures came out this day, one hat went limited, and two St. Patrick's caps went back on sale. The first retexture to come out was the Unorthodox Pot of Gold, an extremely creative top hat retexture by IBarrageI. I like how the hat is supposed to represent gold being hidden in a leprechaun's top hat. This hat was one of three St. Patrick's retextures that were limited at release, and was 317 robux (reference to 3/17) with 1000 in stock. Currently the hat has profited and raised to around 600 robux, but sell it soon, as it is dropping in price. The second retexture released was the Lucky Clover Necklace, which is DailyValue's first published retexture. It was originally 44 robux and looks great with many hats. After that, the classic Neon Shamrock went back on sale for 10 robux and bc only, and Shamrock Styles went back on sale for 10 tix. The last event of the day was that St. Patrick's Day 2012 went limited. It's now selling for less than 100 robux for it's non-rarity. 

Day 3

Day 3 was the big day. For weeks now the admin BrightEyes had been hinting of a fourth fedora to come out in the Sparkle Time Fedora series, and many were suspecting a Green Sparkle Time Fedora. However, hat leakers didn't find it at all, leaving people baffled during the week. Unexpectedly, around 12:00 AM EST/9:00 AM PST, ROBLOX released the Green Sparkle Time Fedora. This fedora was the quickest selling fedora in the entire series. Like most of it's predecessors, it was limited with 100 in stock and 10,000 robux. The fedora is currently worth around 200k to 300k robux, but I'm pretty sure it should lower soon. At the moment it has the highest RAP of all the Sparkle Time Fedoras, but value wise it's the second to last most wanted Sparkle Time. (the least wanted fedora in the series is the Bluesteel Fedora). However, the Green Sparkle Time Fedora has some major problems that the admins should fix. The first problem is that in my opinion, it has a weird hue of green. It's too bright, and removes the detail. The biggest problem, however, is that the band of the fedora is so bright and smooth, that it doesn't match it's counterparts. Picture below.

notice how the band of the GSTF is much brighter than the other STFs

Other things that happened on Day 3 include the following. Before the GSTF came out, the Knit Leprechaun hat came out at a cheap 10 robux. The Irish Guard, another retexture by IBarrageI of the unreleased hat "Ares" was limited at 17 robux (another St. Pat's reference) and had 10,000 in stock. Currently it's selling for around 100 robux, and looks pretty good for a cheap limited. Uncle Sean's Fedora, a nice new addition to the new fedora mesh series, came out for 317 robux (another 3/17 reference) and was the first hat to go offsale after the weekend. Also, the Lucky Shades, IBarrageI's first retexture, went limited and are now selling around 1.5k. Oddly enough though, another IBarrageI retexture, the Ninja of the Shamrock was leaked and supposedly was planned to come out, but it didn't. Maybe St. Patrick's 2014?

Overall, this was a pretty good St. Patrick's Day sale. Especially for the 100 people who managed to snag (or bot) a Green Sparkle Time Fedora for 10,000 robux. The next big ROBLOX event is the egg hunt, and that is set to take place all next week. With over 20+ eggs, it's bound to be good. It will be good, believe me.

- NSE (NonstopEpic), Catalog Manager