Talk:Epic Egyptian Hat/@comment-34607140-20180406161350/@comment-30334635-20180416192544

This is a seasonal Halloween (or well, "Night of the Phantoms") item.

While I do not believe in the concept of "cultural appropriation" (or at least not it being bad), I'm pretty sure even people who do, don't consider the "cultural appropriation" of ANCIENT civilizations to be bad. This is literally....an item from ancient Egypt, a pharoah hat. Native American Headdresses and Native American tribes still exist in current day, but pharoahs don't.

If AJHQ was really that sensitive that they'd remove depictions of ancient civilizations, then they would have put a rare-tag on it, state that they don't return them in item returns, and they would just outright say it's discontinued. Not only that, but I don't think the whole "cultural appropriation" thing was the sole reason for Headdresses being discontinued, it was also because of how sacred it is to Native Americans and the status it holds to them, how it has to be earned, that added to why they removed it (aka why they'll still return Head Feathers and why they still release them in AJPW, not to mention had the Diamond Shop ones, but would never do something like that with Headdresses).

To summarize, it is not discontinued. Being out of stores versus discontinued is different. If they really were to remove things from any culture, even ancient cultures, then they would've done the same to Sombreros as well. Saying it's "discontinued and will become super rare" is a big, big reach and something that I don't believe in the slightest.