Top Hat

The Top Hat is a wearable hat in Platform Racing 3 and Platform Racing 2 that allows players to walk through certain types of blocks.
==Platform Racing 3==
An early sketch version of the Top Hat was frequently worn by Jiggmin shortly after the game's release before it received its final design several months later.
===Ability===
Players are freely able to pass through crumble and vanish blocks from the sides and bottom.
===Obtainability===
The Top Hat was one of the 4 hats made available as a random prize in the Level of the Day in the game's final update on September 20, 2011.
==Platform Racing 2==
Announced on April 17, 2011, the Top Hat was the only hat introduced in PR3 to be brought over to PR2."A..... a..... top hat?". Jiggmin. April 17, 2011. It retains relatively the same design except its ribbon is slightly raised.
===Ability===
Players can walk through the sides and bottom of vanish blocks. They can also hold up while standing inside a wall of them to quickly shoot themselves upwards.
===Obtainability===
The Top Hat is the prize of "The Golden Compass" by -Shadowfax-, referred to as "The Guardian of the Top Hat".
==Trivia==
*Originally Jiggmin gave the hat out to people in PR2 during his livestreams if he read their email or played their level."How to win a top hat". Jiggmin. April 17, 2011. He felt this was unfair over time and came up with other methods:
**First he planned for accounts that were at least 2 years old to automatically receive the hat, but he discovered the database storing join dates was broken. Instead he set up a system that gave it to players whose level met certain strict thresholds."PR2 Heaton!'s campaign" (21:15)
**Eventually he decided to hold a contest during summer 2011 to choose a difficult level that it'd be the prize of."The Guardian of the Top Hat". Jiggmin's Village. June 24, 2011."PR2 Top Hat Level Announcement" "The Golden Compass" was eventually chosen in September. More levels were originally planned to guard the hat as he added more campaigns, but this ended up being scrapped."Guardian of the Top Hat". Jiggmin. September 4, 2011."Guardian of the Top Hat" (5:06)
*Both games attribute the hat's powers to magic bunnies, referencing the classic magic trick. PR2 took the idea a step further by having a bunny give the hat to Jiggmin and be the one who gave it out to other players through the program he used in his livestreams.
**It may also be a reference to a song in Buffy the Vampire Slayer based on a post from Jiggmin."Pr3 Hat Guide. Jiggmin's Village. October 31, 2010.
*Not counting PR3's unreleased hats, the Top Hat holds the record for longest time between a hat's creation and its release in the series. Based on internal ordering and a post from Jiggmin, it was added to PR3 sometime in 2009 before the Party Hat and wasn't released for roughly two years until September 2011."New Hats for PR2?". Jiggmin's Village. December 28, 2009.
==References==
Category:Hats
Category:Platform Racing 2 Articles
Category:Platform Racing 3 Articles