ROBLOX Tablet Series History: Roblox's Rarest Gems

The ROBLOX Tablet series is twenty Classic Limited Gear items that Roblox minted between November 14 and December 4, 2012, one at a time, each carrying the exact name of the single player who bought it. Every tablet has a total supply of one copy and always will, since Roblox never made a second run. Twelve of the twenty have resold at least once since 2012, with prices ranging from 64,270 R$ up to 4,000,000 R$ in live RAP, while the other eight have never changed hands at all.

What Was the ROBLOX Tablet Promotion?

In late 2012, Roblox was weeks away from bringing the platform to iPad and iPhone, a launch that went live in December 2012 and became the company's first real push into mobile gaming. To mark the occasion, Roblox dropped a single Gear item into the catalog at random intervals, over roughly three weeks, priced higher each time. Whoever bought it first got the item, and Roblox renamed it on the spot to match the buyer's username. The item's description still reads exactly as it did the day each one sold: "Winner: [name]. ROBLOX will be in touch to redeem this prize. Void if sold, traded, or deleted." Owners who still held their tablet when the ROBLOX Mobile app went live were reportedly sent an iPad in the mail, a nice bit of platform history for an item that costs nothing to display and everything to actually own today.

Every tablet in the line is registered in Roblox's catalog under Roblox's own official account, and all twenty are classified as Gear. None of them do anything special when equipped. Their entire value comes from the fact that each one is verifiably the only copy of itself that will ever exist, tied to a specific person's name from a specific three-week window fourteen years ago. If you're screening for genuinely scarce items in general, the rarest tradable Limiteds on Roblox are a good place to see how rare "one copy" actually is against the rest of the market, and the whole line still shows up if you filter Classic Limited gear down to a total supply of one.

The Full Ladder: All Twenty Tablets, in Order

Roblox released these in ascending price order, starting at 10,000 Robux and climbing all the way to 1,000,000 Robux, before dropping the final tablet to a symbolic 1 Robux to guarantee somebody grabbed it. The table below lists all twenty in the order they sold, with live RAP as of this run for the twelve that have resold at least once.

A few of the exact 2012 dates aren't in our records, but the price ladder itself, pulled straight from Roblox's own catalog data, tells the release order on its own: nobody would have priced item #4 at 40,000 Robux if item #19 hadn't already sold for 900,000.

Why Launch Price Predicts Almost Nothing

This is the part of the ROBLOX Tablet story that actually matters for a trader. mygame43 paid 100,000 Robux, roughly in the middle of the pack, and that tablet now carries the second-highest RAP in the entire family at 2,800,000. brayden99 paid 300,000 and now holds the single most valuable tablet at 4,000,000 RAP. Meanwhile enyahs7 paid a full 1,000,000 Robux, the highest price anyone paid on the whole ladder, and that tablet's RAP today sits at just 101,000, near the bottom of the twelve that have ever resold. And ninjabart122, who famously paid 1 Robux for the last tablet in the run, is the only sub-100,000-Robux tablet to show any resale activity at all, something eight tablets priced as high as 800,000 Robux still can't claim.

None of that is about the items themselves, since they're functionally identical Gear pieces that differ only in whose name is stitched onto them. It's a clean demonstration of a point worth remembering on any thin-market gem: what makes a Roblox item rare and what makes it valuable are two different questions, and launch price answers neither one. On a normal Limited with thousands of copies, RAP tracks a real, ongoing market. On something like this, RAP mostly just remembers whatever a buyer decided that specific name was worth, whenever that last trade happened to occur.

The Eight That Never Moved

Eight of the twenty tablets, Merely's, TheGamer101's, d4rk886's, Luckymaxer's, Plad's, Rukiryo's, Seranok's, and Are200's, show no RAP at all in our data, meaning none of them has recorded a single resale since the day Roblox created them in 2012. That's not a data gap. RAP is an exponentially smoothed average built from actual sale history, so an item with no RAP is an item that has never sold on the secondary market, full stop. Fourteen years on, that almost certainly means the original winner is still sitting on it, whether they're an active trader today, a long-retired account, or something in between.

That's a genuinely unusual thing to find in the Limiteds market. Most old gems have changed hands at least once out of curiosity, desperation, or a hoarder's offer nobody could refuse. Eight names from a three-week window in 2012 apparently never got, or never took, an offer worth accepting.

What Drives the Premium Here

Three things stack on top of each other. First, the supply is as absolute as it gets on Roblox: one copy, created once, with the promotional window that made it possible closed for good in 2012. Second, the naming mechanic turns each item into a small piece of platform history, since there's no version of "another mygame43's ROBLOX Tablet" that could ever exist. Third, the story around the release, tied to Roblox's first mobile launch and a real hardware prize for whoever was still holding a tablet when the app shipped, gives the line a fixed place in Roblox's timeline that a purely cosmetic item usually doesn't get.

Working against that premium is liquidity, or the lack of it. A buyer looking to actually own one of these has to convince one specific person to sell one specific object that may never come up for sale again. That's a very different trade than picking up a Sparkle Time Fedora off a resale listing.

A Collector's Outlook

If you're drawn to the ROBLOX Tablet line, treat it as owning a piece of platform memorabilia. The RAP figures above are useful as a record of what someone else once decided to pay. Expect long waits, direct negotiation over the in-game trade system rather than a resale listing, and real risk that a specific tablet you want simply never becomes available in your lifetime. This isn't financial advice, and a market this thin can move on a single trade in either direction.

For traders who want to track how the broader Limiteds market is pricing scarcity right now, the items leaderboard lets you sort and filter by supply and RAP across the whole catalog.

FAQ

What is the ROBLOX Tablet series?

It's a set of twenty Classic Limited Gear items Roblox released one at a time between November 14 and December 4, 2012, timed to the platform's launch on iPad and iPhone. Each tablet was automatically renamed after whichever player bought it first, and each has a total supply of exactly one copy.

Are ROBLOX Tablets tradeable?

Yes. Despite catalog description text reading "void if sold, traded, or deleted," twelve of the twenty tablets show at least one resale in their RAP history, so Roblox does not appear to enforce that language against ordinary trades or resales today.

Which ROBLOX Tablet is the most valuable?

brayden99's ROBLOX Tablet currently carries the highest live RAP in the family at 4,000,000, followed by mygame43's ROBLOX Tablet at 2,800,000. brayden99 paid 300,000 Robux and mygame43 paid just 100,000, both far below the 1,000,000 Robux that enyahs7 paid for the single highest launch price in the series, yet enyahs7's tablet now carries one of the lowest RAP figures in the traded group.

Why do some tablets show no RAP?

RAP only exists once an item has an actual recorded sale. Eight tablets in the series have never resold since Roblox created them in 2012, so they carry no RAP at all, likely meaning the original 2012 winner still holds them today.

Why did the launch prices climb so unevenly?

Roblox released the tablets in a rough ascending-price ladder, from 10,000 Robux up to 1,000,000 Robux, then priced the twentieth and final tablet at just 1 Robux to make sure it sold before the promotion ended.