My speculation on the re releasing of older christmas stuff is that it will be christmas tokens. I only say this because of Jagex recently rereleasing the zombie walk token and then flooding the market with rainbow items/tokens. Rereleasing tokens seems to be the direction that Jagex is taking. I would bet money that the green santa hat will be more rare than the gold partyhat since any account can make a gold partyhat.
Also, as far as those concerned about Jagex releasing "too many" rares, I don't see the issue here. I started playing way back before bunny ears were released. Pumpkins were released Oct 2001, christmas cracker Dec 2001, easter egg Apr 2002, halloween masks Oct 2002, and santa hats Dec 2002. All of those were released in that amount of time before Jagex decided to make untradeable rares. There were no issues with that many rares in that timespan back then. If anything the more rares the better since there is so much gp in the game as this is a means of storing gp. Having a gold partyhat and a green santa hat this month is like the equivalent of halloween masks and santa hats released in 2002. Instead of us getting a discontinued rare in Oct and Dec like in 2002 we are getting 2 in Dec this year.
10-Dec-2021 19:51:39