It's not a mess up, and this item is actually slated to be rereleased soon like other contest prizes have been. Only a few went out via the free shop, and it was taken out once enough of the item had been distributed. We put rare items in the free shop every year at Luminaire, as well. This is no different!

The free shop stock works the following way: we put in a lot of items of a rarity range, or a specific rarity. There are cash shop items, game prizes, retired items, holiday items, special shop items, etc. The only items that were never supposed to go out in the free shop were the Natasha and Oracle Staff, both of which have been taken out by staff and no longer appear.