Summary

  • After more than 1,500 days, the Borderlands bundle of Claptrap and Psycho Bandit will be returning to Fortnite's item shop.
  • With the re-release of the Borderlands items, Kratos, Street Fighter, Travis Scott and League of Legends now take the place of some of Fortnite's rarest cosmetics.
  • Over the past few months, Fortnite has made considerable efforts to re-release "rare" skins, including Master Chief, Starfire and Renegade Raider.

Ask and you shall receive. One of the rarest skins in Fortnite is slated to return to the item shop later tonight, as both Claptrap and the Psycho Bandit from Borderlands will be making their return after an absence of more than 1,500 days.

According to the website Fortnite.gg, a website built to track all things Fortnite, the Borderlands items were last spotted on May 31, 2020, an absence of nearly five years.

And as Fortnite insider HypeX noted on Twitter, with the Borderlands items re-releasing later this evening, it puts Kratos, the League of Legends Arcane skins, Street Fighter characters and Travis Scott as some of the only remaining cosmetics with absences longer than 1,000 days.

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While it remains to be seen what happens with the other cosmetics, it should be noted that the Arcane skins will not be returning anytime soon, according to a recent update, making them all the more rare.

Fortnite Has Been Re-Releasing Rare Skins Lately

The Borderlands skins aren't the only "rare" cosmetics that got a re-release. Last December, Starfire returned to the item shop after more than 800 days on the sidelines.

During that same time period, Halo's Master Chief also returned to the game after a 900-plus-day absence. And lest we forget, Renegade Raider, widely considered one of the rarest, most sought-after skins, returned after more than 2,500 days. That last bit didn't sit well with longtime players.

All that is to say that Fortnite has made a major effort to give players "one more" chance to get some of the game's more rare items, and Borderlands is just the latest example.

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