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Paper Planes

It’s that time again. A new hat and gear of the week have arrived. This week’s gear item is the Paper Airplane. Control your paper airplane as it guides through the air. The advantages of a virtual paper airplane over a real paper airplane? You don’t have to chase after it when it crash lands and you want to fly it again. It magically reappears in your hand. Awesome!

Our hat of the week is the Silver Kaiser Helm. It’s the gold standard of Silver Kaiser Helmets.

As always, the items of the week are only available for a week. That means these will go offsale on 2/5/10. Be sure to keep your eye on the catalog this weekend. It’s going to be geartastic!

Talk about this week’s items here.

Hey Mr. Tambourine Man

Telamon started singing this song and I couldn’t get it out of my head. So here it is - everything you need to be Mr. Tambourine Man - or at least everything that you need to be the Mr. Tambourine Man that I see in my head whenever I imagine him.

Chocolate Milk - Playing the tambourine is a hard job. You work up a powerful thirst. To quench the powerful thirst - chocolate milk! Why chocolate milk? Chocolate Milk = Awesome and Mr. Tambourine Man = Awesome, so it’s an obvious choice.

Tambourine - Another obvious choice for a Tambouine Man. Without it he’s just a man.

Moonflower - This is exactly what I would wear on a jingle-jangle morning. Too bad I don’t have too many of those.

Clown School Dropout - Because like the Tambourine Man, you should follow your dreams. Clown school has got to be somebody’s dream. Right? Okay maybe not…

As a final reminder - tomorrow we take the ROFL Waffle and the Pancaik off sale. So if you want to own our very first Hat and Gear of the Week - get them now!

You can talk about this on the forums.
-Brighteyes
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January 25th 2010
Viking Plundercap On Sale - One Day Only!

Exciting news! We’ve lowered the price of the Viking Plundercap from R$ 125 to R$ 90. This sale is only going to last for one day so act now!

Also, feel free to check out some of the other cool new items we’ve got in the catalog.

Talk about the sale here.

Introducing SETS!!!

Today we introduce the newest in our line of products to help builders: Sets. Sets are similar to Channels and Feeds in that they help group similar content together. Sets are collections of Models and Decals that a user has found around the site and grouped together. A "Ninja" set, for example, might contain nunchucks, throwing stars, a sword, and a bunch of ninja decals. It could also have ninja training grounds included. If you subscribed to the "Ninja" set, you could then easily find these items while building by using the new Insert tool (which is coming soon).

How do I create a set?

Creating a set is easy! Once logged in, visit My Sets (My ROBLOX -> Sets). You can create up to 10 sets. You can add a description and even an image icon. This icon is used in various places on the site along with your set’s name. As usual, these images and names are moderated.

How do I add items to sets?

Sets can be made from any Models or Decals that are Public Domain and considered to be Trusted. Anywhere where you find these items, you should see a star on the thumbnail. Mouse over the star and select the sets you’d like to add an item to. A gray star indicates that a model is either not Public Domain or not Trusted.

How do I share a set?

When viewing your sets, you’ll notice a URL link below your sets name. If you send this link to a friend, they can view your set and subscribe to it. Feel free to post this URL in the forums or send it via a personal message.

How do I find a set?

You can search for sets in the Catalog. Also, you can subscribe to sets by following the direct link discussed in the section above.

What is Public Domain?

A Public Domain model/decal means that a user can freely use / copy this object. Models and Decals that are not Public Domain are private to the owner and cannot be added to a set.

What is a Trusted model?

Along with sets comes our first reputation system. This is a complex system used to prevent cheaters and hackers from distributing viruses inside of their models. If we determine a model is not trusted, it’s because we do not trust a script inside of it.

We hope you enjoy the new feature, and feel free to tell us about it (and talk about your own cool sets) in this forum thread.

Yes I like Waffles!

As some of you may have noticed, we recently released some new items - the pancaik and the ROFL Waffle.

The ROFL Waffle is our very first Gear of the Week! So what exactly is a Gear of the Week? I’m glad you asked. Gear of the Week is an item that will only be sold for one week. After that the item will no longer be for sale, although we might make some of the Gear of the Week items collectible. So you guys have until 1/29/10 to buy the ROFL Waffle. On 1/29/10 we’ll put up a new Gear of the Week.

Pancaik is our first Hat of the Week. Hat of the Week works the same way as Gear of the Week except instead of a gear item, it’s a hat. Get the Pancaik before 1/29/10 to show that you’re on Team Pancaik.

Talk about our Gear and Hat of the Week on the forums.

ROBLOX Players Raise $5479.00 For Haiti Disaster Relief

Last week we started our now hugely successful “Hats for Haiti” donation drive, and this week we are mailing our first check out to the American Red Cross. The “Hats for Haiti” drive will continue for another week, after which we’ll write a second check for the remainder of the proceeds.

January 21, 2010

Dear American Red Cross:

Attached is a $5479 check for the International Response Fund. This donation was collectively raised by more than 16,000 players of ROBLOX, an online virtual building game. These players believe in your mission and wish that the money be used to benefit the people of Haiti after the terrible disaster there, in whichever manner your organization deems best.

Regards,

David Baszucki,

CEO ROBLOX Corp.

The ROBLOX Team is thrilled to be able to make this contribution to the efforts of the Red Cross, and we salute our very generous player base, more than 16,000 of whom directly contributed to the donation drive. You guys are great!

- Telamon

Ski Trip!

With all of these storms, it’s really starting to feel like winter here in California. Maybe that’s why we’ve made so many winter hats lately!

Chill Classic - When I’m cold, my ears are the first thing that freeze. With these warm earmuffs that is no longer an issue!

Musclehead - Lolz - we mean musclehead literally!

The Raven- Quoth the Robloxian, ‘Nevermore’.

Blinky the Cyclops - Because sometimes two eyes is one eye too many.

A Dark Presence - Even the name is scary!

Classic Alien - He’s kickin’ it old school in classic alien green.

MLK Cap -”Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

Sweat It Out - Man that was a lot of stairs.

You can talk about the new items here.