Rarity

Rarity is a measure for items that are exclusive to a group of players. An item is defined as rare if it is old and has not been reintroduced.

Definition
A player who has had an account for a very long time usually owns many rare items, and is generally looked up on by newer players. For example, the Hawaiian Lei given out in January 2006 - 3 months after the public release of Club Penguin - is considered rare because many players who had it have stopped playing the game, leaving a small amount of players still with item and rendering it rare to come by. Players usually demonstrate their "rareness" by wearing their oldest clothes and showing their ability to match the clothes of any penguin they come across, leading to competitions where players try and match each other until one fails to do so.

Rare items
Rare items are either old, making them not always available, which makes it "rare" or one-time items (Anniversary hats, pins, etc). Rarity is a long sought after goal in new penguins.

The items listed below are "rare" because they're only available in some parties, etc. Some of them will never return (confirmed by the Club Penguin Team).

Head items

 * Party Hat
 * Headphones
 * Ice Crown
 * 1st Year Party Hat
 * 2nd Year Party Hat
 * 3rd Year Party Hat
 * 4th Year Party Hat
 * Roman Helmet
 * Red Construction Hat
 * Blue Bunny Ears
 * Sailor Hat
 * Gigantic St. Patricks Hat

Face items

 * Green Sunglasses
 * Yellow Snorkel
 * Swirly Glasses

Neck items

 * Lime Green Cape
 * Blue Mail Bag
 * Gold Medal
 * Hawaiian Lei
 * Blue Lei
 * Star Necklace

Body items

 * Lighthouse Donation Shirt
 * Snowflake T-Shirt
 * Tie Dye Shirt (from the Treasure Book)
 * Beta Grid Sweater (from the Treasure Book)
 * Beta Hat T-Shirt (from the Treasure Book)
 * Music Jam T-Shirt
 * Black and Red Sailor Shirt

Hand items

 * MP3000 (from the Treasure Book)
 * Water Wings
 * Blue Water Wings
 * Festive Maracas
 * Pair of Maracas
 * Blue Cotton Candy

Feet items

 * Ice Skates
 * Geta Sandals
 * Brown Pirate Boots

Pins

 * All pins (with an exception of the pins that come with certain plays).

Backgrounds

 * Western Sunset Background
 * Cadence's Autograph
 * Gary Background
 * Rockhopper Background
 * Rockhopper Background (plants)
 * Band Background
 * Band Autograph
 * Aunt Arctic's Autograph
 * Sensei's Autograph
 * Sensei's Autograph (fire)
 * Exclusive Rockhopper Background

Names
Some names are considered rare in the fashion that they are common words that would be in high demand and that only one lucky player was able to claim it first. Rare names are usually four letters or have no numbers in them (indicating the fact that nobody has claimde it before). Here are a few rare names, some of them have been taken and most that have taken them are Beta Testers.


 * Alfa
 * Beta
 * Cool
 * Dude
 * Awesome
 * Ninja
 * Penguin
 * Puffle
 * Speedy
 * Sonic
 * Shadow
 * Jedi
 * Peng
 * Flipper
 * Test
 * Tester
 * Dark
 * Wiki
 * Wikia
 * Happy
 * Fano
 * Berry

Trivia

 * Many new penguins want to be rare, and plead to Club Penguin for the rare items to come back, although ironically they won't be rare anymore. Despite this obviousness, Club Penguin have reintroduced nearly all rare items that were available to non members.
 * Anniversary hats and Pins will never come back, making the Beta Hat and Shamrock Pin the rarest items you can get.
 * Many rare penguins tease non-rare penguins and show-off their items. New penguins are tired and annoyed of this.
 * Club Penguin Moderators and Staff are catching on to this new craze and have brought back items like the Black Toque or the Black Superhero mask.
 * Most rare items are normally non-member, such as party hats, Red and White shirt, Eye Patch, etc.
 * Club Penguin confirms that all rare items (except pins and party hats) will come back some time, which may make a lot of rare penguins disappointed while making new penguins excited.