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The [ classified ], better known as the Potato Hat, is a promotional headwear item for all classes. It is a white hard hat with a potato-powered miner's light with a team-colored glow, connected by two orange wires with team-colored connector insulation. The far side of the hat sports grey electrical tape covering an unknown team-colored circular logo.

This hat was awarded from April 5, 2011 to players who had bought the Potato Sack pack, or had owned all the games from the pack, on Steam. It appears to still be available, and it is unknown when it will stop being awarded.

The games contained within the pack consist of

Players who have played all the above games also received the Resurrection Associate Pin.

Painted variants

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Single colors
Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat E6E6E6.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat D8BED8.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat C5AF91.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 7E7E7E.png
An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge Color No. 216-190-216 Peculiarly Drab Tincture Aged Moustache Grey
Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 141414.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 2D2D24.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 694D3A.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 7C6C57.png
A Distinctive Lack of Hue After Eight Radigan Conagher Brown Ye Olde Rustic Colour
Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat A57545.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat CF7336.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat E7B53B.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat F0E68C.png
Muskelmannbraun Mann Co. Orange Australium Gold The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants
Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat E9967A.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat FF69B4.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 7D4071.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 51384A.png
Dark Salmon Injustice Pink as Hell A Deep Commitment to Purple Noble Hatter's Violet
Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 2F4F4F.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 424F3B.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 808000.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 729E42.png
A Color Similar to Slate Zepheniah's Greed Drably Olive Indubitably Green
Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 32CD32.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat BCDDB3.png
The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime A Mann's Mint
Team colors
Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat A89A8C.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 839FA3.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 3B1F23.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 18233D.png
Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU)
Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat B8383B.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 5885A2.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 483838.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 384248.png
Team Spirit (RED) Team Spirit (BLU) Operator's Overalls (RED) Operator's Overalls (BLU)
Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 803020.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 256D8D.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 654740.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat 28394D.png
The Value of Teamwork (RED) The Value of Teamwork (BLU) An Air of Debonair (RED) An Air of Debonair (BLU)
Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat C36C2D.png Painted Aperture Labs Hard Hat B88035.png RED Aperture Labs Hard Hat Classified.png BLU Aperture Labs Hard Hat Classified.png
Cream Spirit (RED) Cream Spirit (BLU) Unpainted (RED) Unpainted (BLU)

Update history

April 5, 2011 Patch

  • [Undocumented] This item was added to the game.

April 7, 2011 Patch

  • [Undocumented] Made paintable.

Bugs

  • The hat did not drop for all people who own the games in the Potato Sack immediately. An email from Robin Walker has confirmed the remaining hats will be dropped within the "next couple of days".[1].

Trivia

  • This hat is a reference to the "Potato Clock"[2], a popular science fair project where a potato is used to power a clock or other electronic appliance.
  • The games included in the Potato Sack pack contain potatoes and glyphs leading to one another, and are part of an ongoing Template:W.
  • The hat's name of Potato is a reference to Portal 2 as evidenced by a marketing image found on the Steam website where the Portal 2 logo was written out with letters ommited. [3]

Gallery

See also

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