Supreme's DYE MXR Paintball Marker Ships With an R2 Loader

Supreme's DYE MXR paintball marker arrives Thursday, October 15, in red and bundled with a Dye R2 loader. It is the Week 9 piece of the Fall/Winter 2026 season with the least in common with a hoodie: an electronic marker with an aluminum body and laser engraved logos. Add up retailer listings for the two Dye parts inside it and Supreme's total runs noticeably higher, which makes the markup the thing to read.

One Colorway, Red, at 11 AM Eastern on October 15

The marker and R2 loader are listed as a single item in a single colorway, red, on the October 15 droplist at SupremeCommunity, with drop trackers putting the release at 11 AM Eastern. Supreme's Thursday drops arrive on that rhythm all season, and Week 9 shares its Thursday with the 19 piece Martine Rose collection, which already includes a JBL speaker and a Nike Dunk Low with Mike Tyson graphics.

The season opened with a machine too. Hypebeast's coverage of the August 20 Week 1 release singled out a Jeff Hamilton Box Logo leather jacket and a chromed out motor scooter, which puts a motor scooter and a marker in one season. This one still needs paint and a compressed air fill before it shoots, which is what the 68/4500 figure in the listing refers to.

The listing describes an aerospace grade aluminum body with laser engraved logos and claims more than 2,000 shots from a full 68/4500 fill. That shot count is a listing claim, not a test result.

Dye's Parts List Totals Less Than Supreme's Ticket

SupremeCommunity lists the marker with the R2 loader at $1,998. Dye's base MXR sits at $1,499.95 at Punisher Paintball, and the R2 loader lists between roughly $190 and $210 across retailers. Together that is about $1,690 to $1,710, so the Supreme total carries a premium near $300 for the red finish and the logo.

That is a fair number to put beside a garment. A Box Logo hoodie asks you to pay for a name. This item asks for that name tax on top of a tool that already costs $1,500 before anyone engraves a logo on it. Anyone who wants the marker without the name can buy the base MXR in a colorway of their choice for the lower figure and keep the roughly $300.

Arc X Bolt, Flex Face Tip, Two AA Batteries

The MXR is Dye's electronic flagship, and the spec sheet reads like a watchmaker's. The Arc X bolt carries a Flex Face tip, which Dye says handles delicate paint gently. A Lockdwn2 clamping feed neck holds the loader in place, a Hyper 6 IM regulator manages air, and the 3v MOSair board runs the marker on two AA batteries. The Mag X Reach trigger ships with two trigger profiles, and the TAAC detent system controls how balls sit in the breech.

The Boomstick UL i barrel system arrives with .680, .684 and .688 inserts, so a player can match the barrel to the paint in the hopper. The patented UL 45 frame hides its screws. Those are Dye's specifications from retailer product pages and a launch period review, so treat them as marketing copy until a player has tested them.

The loader is not an afterthought. Dye's MXR manual recommends a motorized loader and names the LT R or the R2 first. The R2 holds 200 or 260 rounds depending on the shell setting, feeds more than 30 balls a second according to retail listings and runs on three AA batteries. Supreme chose the pairing Dye itself prefers, which is the quiet reason the item makes sense as a set.

Galimberti Crossed 35 States Photographing Gun Owners at Home

Supreme credits its image to Gabriele Galimberti, from his Ameriguns project, 2019. Galimberti began the project in 2018, when a National Geographic commission to photograph dinosaur fossils had him meeting a gun collector in Kansas. He then set off on a road trip through 35 states, photographing owners at home with their collections, often with children and pets in the frame. The book, published by Dewi Lewis, pairs the portraits with interviews and texts by the journalist Gea Scancarello.

A paintball marker is a sporting tool and Ameriguns is a study of firearms in American homes, so the credit is a documentary reference rather than a product match. It names the photographer behind the drop's imagery, whose project put owners and their collections in their own homes.

Red, one colorway, Thursday at 11 AM Eastern: the full pairing is $1,998, against a Dye parts bill near $1,700, and the difference buys the red finish and the name.