Guild Wars 2

So I was logging onto GW2 for almost every day as far as I can remember of the Xmas event. I didn’t always play much, but I tried to check the store every day or 2, and work slowly towards events. I also regularly checked reddit and wiki to make I didn’t miss anything.
A week ago I checked wiki and found out there were 2 items in the gem store that never showed for me.
Ever.
The ear muffs and wizard’s hat….Now the wizard’s hat was free, so that’s especially weird that it didn’t show up for me…But the ear muffs were 25 gems a piece, and I would’ve GLADLY paid some real $$ at the time for them if need be. They were never there. I don’t remember hearing about either of them ONCE throughout the entire month or so the event was ongoing. I kinda feel a bit miffed now cause I love how the earmuffs look and the wizard’s hat was free n I missed out.

My real question is…will they return? Were they 2012 only, or can I get them come 2013 Xmas? I would not mind waiting until next xmas to score them, and heck, if given the option to pay for some now so I can at least have 1 of them, I’d gladly do it. I’m just trying to ask cause I’m a bit saddened I missed out on things that never showed in store. (And yes, I did buy things from the store, and I checked every tab cause back then wasn’t as much stuff…no earmuffs or wizard’s hats were ever seen or I’d have nabbed em up.)

I also had a question regarding SAB n it’s skins, but I can ask that in another thread since this is not the appropriate sub forum.

I would say it is likely you will see the hats during Halloween and maybe the earmuffs (I haven’t seen these so just guessing) will be there come winters time. But that’s just speculation.

I mean, this hasn’t been around for a year or 2 yet. There’s no guarantee GW2 will follow GW1 and have different hats every year, especially since gem store would allow people to pay real $$ to buy them (Yes people can use ingame gold, but the more we do that the more it raises, so real $ purchases will still come in, especially as ingame gold costs rise ‘too high’ for some) giving incentive to retain prior ones at least for a bit…

But then again, maybe it will follow and new hats every year. All I know is I want a chance to get ear muffs n wizard hat cause they never showed for me.

I got everything I REALLY wanted for Halloween, so if the costumes are new for halloween n no old ones return I won’t be TOO broken up about it cause I had a fair shot at all known halloween items since they all showed for me and I should also have a really good storage of gems hahaha. But yeah…I’m more annoyed by missing out on items I didn’t know existed (xmas stuff) than missing out on stuff I knew of but couldn’t afford/farm for in time (Halloween).