Tentacles Series History: Roblox's Over 9000 Squids

The Tentacles series is Roblox's family of cartoon squid hats, started in May 2009 with Mr. Tentacles and still growing in 2026. Most of its members reference the "OVAR 9000" meme in their names, prices or descriptions, and five of them are Limiteds you can buy and sell today. The rarest is Dr. Ishmael at 148 copies, which carries a RAP of 815,066 Robux in RBX Invest catalog data as of September 2026. A Limited is an item Roblox stopped selling, with a fixed number of copies that owners resell to each other. RAP, short for Recent Average Price, is Roblox's slow-moving average of an item's recent sale prices.

Quick answer: The Tentacles series is a run of squid hats Roblox published between 2009 and 2026, built around the "over 9000" joke. Five are Limiteds: Dr. Ishmael (148 copies), 8-Bit Mr. Tentacles (107), Santa Tentacles (507), Tentacles Junior (7,321) and Mrs. Tentacles (8,197). Four of those five only became Limiteds during a 2022 wave, years after they left the catalog.

If you collect classic hats, this family is worth knowing because it does something unusual. Most old Roblox hats either launched as Limiteds or never became one. The Tentacles hats sat offsale for years, meaning Roblox had stopped selling them but they still were not resellable, then four of them flipped to Limited status inside eight months of 2022. Anyone holding a spare copy woke up with a tradeable asset.

What is the Roblox Tentacles series? A squid-hat family built on one 2009 joke

The series is a set of large cartoon squids worn on the head, each a recolor or remodel of the same basic idea. Roblox published the first one, Mr. Tentacles, on May 28, 2009, according to the Roblox Wiki's Tentacles series page. Its description is still the original all-caps shout: "ZOMG WHAT IS THAT ON YOUR HEAD!!!!! ITS OVAR 9000!!!!!!!!!"

That joke became the family's signature. Roblox priced most later members at exactly 9,001 Robux. Mr. Tentacles itself sits at 9,090 Robux on the catalog right now, and Cousin Tentacles at 7,000, both still buyable directly from Roblox. Community records say Mrs. Tentacles was originally sold for 9,090 Tickets, back when Roblox ran a second currency, which is a detail worth reading about in our piece on Roblox's Tix currency Limiteds.

The family also splits into two mesh groups. Mr., Mrs., Cousin, Great Uncle and Dr. Ishmael all share one squid model with different textures painted on. Junior, Rainbow, 8-Bit, Cultured Cousin, Santa, Party and Pool Party use their own models. That matters for collectors who care about how an item actually looks on an avatar, since the retextures are near-identical in silhouette.

Which Tentacles items are Limiteds? Five of them, and only one launched that way

Here is every Tentacles Limited, ordered by trader consensus street value, which for this family lines up with RAP order. Copies, RAP and lowest ask come from RBX Invest catalog data as of September 5, 2026.

Item	Copies	RAP	Lowest ask	Became Limited
Dr. Ishmael	148	815,066	No real ask (listed near 10 billion)	November 2013, at release
8-Bit Mr. Tentacles	107	256,729	17,200,000	July 4, 2022
Santa Tentacles	507	157,036	190,000	December 27, 2022
Tentacles Junior	7,321	21,394	23,676	May 7, 2022
Mrs. Tentacles	8,197	16,152	16,000	June 18, 2022

Two things jump out of that table. The copy counts are wildly uneven, from 107 to over 8,000. And the top two have asks that nobody is going to pay. A "lowest ask" is the cheapest price any owner has their copy listed at, so when it reads 17.2 million Robux, that owner is not really selling. We wrote about why owners park items at absurd numbers in why Roblox Limiteds get listed for billions.

The bottom two are the ones a normal collector can actually reach. Mrs. Tentacles and Tentacles Junior both have asks close to their RAP, meaning real sellers at real prices. You can screen the whole classic hat market the same way on the items leaderboard or by browsing classic hats.

Why is Dr. Ishmael the most valuable Tentacles hat? A one-hour sale in 2013

Dr. Ishmael went on sale in November 2013 at 9,001 Robux with a one-hour timer, and it was Limited from the start. A timer means Roblox posted the item with a countdown instead of a copy cap, so supply is whatever people managed to buy before the clock ran out. In one hour, 148 copies sold. That is the whole print, and a print is the total number of copies that will ever exist.

For a 2013 item at that price, 148 is tiny. Compare it to Santa Tentacles, which had five days on sale at the same 9,001 Robux and moved 507 copies. Same joke, same price, roughly 3.4 times the supply, and roughly a fifth of the RAP.

Dr. Ishmael's RAP of 815,066 also understates where traders actually value it. Its consensus street value sits meaningfully above RAP, which is what happens when an item almost never trades. RAP only moves when a sale happens, and each sale drags it one tenth of the way toward that sale price, so a market with a handful of trades a year keeps a stale number on the page. That mechanic is explained in full in what RAP means in Roblox trading.

What happened to 8-Bit Mr. Tentacles? A 2016 flop that turned into a 107-copy gem

This is the best story in the family, and it ends with a gem, our word for a scarce Limited that trades far above the ordinary market. Roblox put 8-Bit Mr. Tentacles on sale in September 2016 for 8,000 Robux on a four-day timer. Almost nobody bought it. Community records put the sale at around 109 purchases, and RBX Invest tracks 107 copies today.

Then it sat offsale for nearly six years as a dead item, worth nothing, untradeable, just sitting in a few hundred inventories. On July 4, 2022, Roblox flipped it to Limited status alongside a batch of other old offsale items. Overnight it became one of the smallest prints in the classic catalog, and it now carries a RAP of 256,729 Robux with a lowest ask of 17.2 million.

It belongs to two families at once, since it is also part of the pixel recolor line covered in our 8-Bit series history. If you want to understand the mechanic that created it, read how offsale Roblox items go Limited. The short version is that Roblox can convert a dead item at any time, and when it does, the people holding junk copies are the ones who benefit.

Nobody could have predicted that in 2016, and nobody can make it happen again on demand. Treat it as a reminder that copy counts matter more than launch hype.

Which Tentacles hats are not Limiteds? Seven of them, and two are still on sale

The rest of the family never got Limited status. That means they cannot be resold or traded at all: an offsale non-Limited is simply stuck in whoever's inventory already has it.

Item	Published	Status now
Mr. Tentacles	May 2009	On sale from Roblox, 9,090 R$
Cousin Tentacles	July 2015	On sale from Roblox, 7,000 R$
Rainbow Mr. Tentacles	June 2015	Offsale, returned for Black Friday 2025
Great Uncle Tentacles	November 2016	Offsale, returned March 2026
Cultured Cousin Tentacles	February 2017	Offsale after a three-day timer
Party Tentacles	September 2025	Awarded at an RDC 2025 event, never sold
Pool Party Mr. Tentacles	June 2026	Offsale after a four-day run

Two of these are the ones to watch. Cultured Cousin Tentacles sold only about 132 copies in 2017 before its timer expired, fewer than Dr. Ishmael's 148. Pool Party Mr. Tentacles ran for four days in June 2026 at 9,001 Robux. Neither is Limited, so neither has a market. If Roblox ever converts them the way it converted 8-Bit Mr. Tentacles, both would arrive as very thin prints. That might never happen, so don't plan around it.

What drives the Tentacles premium? Small prints plus a joke people still remember

Three things hold this family up.

Print size does most of the work. Dr. Ishmael and 8-Bit Mr. Tentacles are both under 150 copies. Santa Tentacles is at 507. Those are the three expensive ones, and they are the three smallest prints. Junior and Mrs. sit above 7,000 copies and price in the tens of thousands instead of the hundreds of thousands. You can see that pattern across the whole market on the rarest Limiteds collection and the under 1,000 copies collection.

The meme aged well. "Over 9000" is old, and that is the point. It reads instantly as 2009 Roblox. Collectors who care about era pay for that.

Supply is genuinely locked. Four of the five Limiteds came from items that were offsale for years, so there is no drip of new copies from Roblox. What exists is what exists.

The obvious weakness is demand. These are novelty hats. When the market cools, joke items usually fall further than flagship items, because fewer people are waiting to buy the dip.

Are Robosquid, Kuddly Kraken and Squid Overlord part of the series?

No. All three are squid or octopus themed classic Limiteds, but none of them are listed as members of the Tentacles series on the Roblox Wiki, and none carry the "over 9000" running joke. Traders mix them up constantly, so here they are with their own numbers, from RBX Invest catalog data as of September 5, 2026, ordered by RAP.

Item	Listed	Copies	RAP	Lowest ask
Squid Overlord	March 2012	246	32,049	79,992
Robosquid	October 2010	929	6,185	6,204
Kuddly Kraken	May 2011	9,382	3,665	3,735

Squid Overlord is the interesting one here, with 246 copies and an ask well above its RAP. If you want squid on your head for a few thousand Robux instead of a few hundred thousand, Kuddly Kraken and Robosquid are the cheap doors in.

Should you buy a Tentacles Limited in 2026? What the entry points look like

Start with what you are actually buying. Mrs. Tentacles at a 16,000 Robux ask and Tentacles Junior at 23,676 are both liquid enough to get in and out of, which matters more than upside when you are learning. Liquid means there are real buyers and sellers, so you are not stuck holding it.

Santa Tentacles at 190,000 is the middle tier, and it is the one with the cleanest story: a small print, a seasonal hook every December, and a real ask. Buying Dr. Ishmael or 8-Bit Mr. Tentacles is closer to an auction: you would be negotiating with a handful of owners who have already shown they are in no rush.

Run the resale math before you commit. Selling a classic Limited costs a 30% marketplace fee, so you keep 70% of whatever it sells for. Buy Mrs. Tentacles at 16,000 and you need roughly 22,900 on the way out just to break even, about 1.43 times your cost. That is a big hurdle on an item whose RAP has been flat. Reselling also needs an active Roblox Plus subscription on your account, though the person buying from you needs nothing. After you buy a Limited on resale, Roblox holds it for up to 7 days before you can list it again, and after a trade the hold is 2 days, which we cover in Roblox Limited holding periods. Roblox's marketplace documentation is clear that only Roblox-created Limiteds are tradeable, so every hat on this page can go through the trade window. UGC Limiteds, the ones made by community creators, cannot be traded at all and change hands only through resales.

Watch the deal feed, which needs a signed-in account, if you want one of the cheaper two below ask, and browse the collections hub to compare this family against other classic hat lines. None of this is financial advice. Novelty Limiteds are among the first things to fall when the market turns, values move fast, and you should only spend Robux you are fine losing.

Item history, release dates and original sale prices in this article come from the Roblox Wiki on Fandom and Roblox's own catalog pages; resale rules and the tradeability of Roblox-created Limiteds come from Roblox's marketplace documentation; copies, RAP and lowest ask figures are RBX Invest catalog data as of September 5, 2026.

FAQ

What is the Tentacles series on Roblox?

The Tentacles series is a family of cartoon squid hats published by Roblox starting with Mr. Tentacles in May 2009 and running through Pool Party Mr. Tentacles in June 2026. Most members reference the "over 9000" meme in their descriptions, and many were priced at exactly 9,001 Robux.

Which Tentacles item is the most valuable?

Dr. Ishmael, with 148 copies and a RAP of 815,066 Robux in RBX Invest catalog data as of September 5, 2026. It sold for 9,001 Robux on a one-hour timer in November 2013 and was Limited from the moment it launched.

How many Tentacles hats are Limiteds?

Five: Dr. Ishmael, 8-Bit Mr. Tentacles, Santa Tentacles, Tentacles Junior and Mrs. Tentacles. The other seven known members are either still on sale from Roblox, offsale without Limited status, or event awards, which means they cannot be resold or traded.

Why did Tentacles hats become Limiteds in 2022?

Roblox converted several old offsale items to Limited status during 2022, and four Tentacles hats were caught in that wave: Tentacles Junior on May 7, Mrs. Tentacles on June 18, 8-Bit Mr. Tentacles on July 4 and Santa Tentacles on December 27. Conversion is Roblox's decision alone, and owners can't request it.

Can you still buy Mr. Tentacles from Roblox?

Yes. Mr. Tentacles is still on the catalog at 9,090 Robux, and Cousin Tentacles is still on sale at 7,000 Robux. Neither is a Limited, so buying one gives you the hat but no copy to resell later.

What is the cheapest Tentacles Limited?

Mrs. Tentacles, with a lowest ask of 16,000 Robux as of September 5, 2026, just ahead of Tentacles Junior at 23,676. Both have over 7,000 copies, so there are usually real sellers.

Why is 8-Bit Mr. Tentacles so rare?

It sold roughly 109 copies during a four-day sale at 8,000 Robux in September 2016, then sat offsale until Roblox made it Limited on July 4, 2022. RBX Invest tracks 107 copies today, which is one of the smallest prints in the classic catalog.

Are Squid Overlord and Kuddly Kraken part of the Tentacles series?

No. They are squid-themed classic Limiteds from 2012 and 2011 respectively, but neither is listed as part of the Tentacles series and neither uses the "over 9000" joke. They are much cheaper than the real Tentacles Limiteds and are often confused with them.