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Where can I find a list with the numbers of copies of each limited releases? I know that E Pt II has 800, Pt I has 2000, Intermission has 2000, but what about the small box sets from Infinite to E Pt II? What about the digipak versions of newer albums and the japanese editions?

Edit: my current collection

I have:

Episode
Visions Of Europe
Destiny
Elements Part I
Polaris

The next are Visions and Infinite. After, I don't know.

Only normal Polaris. But I have the signatures on it!

I almost forgot, I have a promotion cd Deep Unknown / Higher we go.

All of them x 1, plus Intermission and Visions of Europe. No EPs, demos, except on bonus discs, singles, etc. I don't even have collections such as The Past and Now. I'm definitely gonna buy these sometime. I'll also look out for every single and stuff in the future, but only to have one of those each.

Intiaani wrote:All of them x 1, plus Intermission and Visions of Europe. No EPs, demos, except on bonus discs, singles, etc. I don't even have collections such as The Past and Now. I'm definitely gonna buy these sometime. I'll also look out for every single and stuff in the future, but only to have one of those each.

Wait, what? Why the fuck would you buy compilations like "The Past and Now" if you already have all the songs?

Because I want to collect them? Why do many people here try to buy EVERY piece of Stratovarius' music even though they already have, like, hundreds of records in different forms?

Well, to add something, I used to have basic jewel-case Infinite and Elements, Pt. 1, but a friend bought me the limited box versions after which I sold and gave away my originals.

Intiaani wrote:Because I want to collect them? Why do many people here try to buy EVERY piece of Stratovarius' music even though they already have, like, hundreds of records in different forms?

This is the question I'm asking! I don't get it. It is just wasting money for me.

My updated list:

CDs/DVDs:

Fright Night
Twilight Time
Dreamspace
Fourth Dimension
Episode
Visions
Visions of Europe (Live)
Destiny
Visions of Destiny (Live Bootleg)
Hunting High And Low (Single)
Infinite (Special Edition)
Intermission
Eagleheart (Singe)
Elements, Pt. 1
Elements, Pt. 2
Stratovarius
Polaris (Digipak)
Infinite Visions (re-released DVD/CD)

Bootlegs as MP3:

Live in the Three Dimensions
Fuckin' P.A
Visions Over Rio

Beast_Pete wrote:Where can I find a list with the numbers of copies of each limited releases? I know that E Pt II has 800, Pt I has 2000, Intermission has 2000, but what about the small box sets from Infinite to E Pt II? What about the digipak versions of newer albums and the japanese editions?

Edit: my current collection

Only your friends in Facebook can see this list...

Tero-75 wrote:

Beast_Pete wrote:Where can I find a list with the numbers of copies of each limited releases? I know that E Pt II has 800, Pt I has 2000, Intermission has 2000, but what about the small box sets from Infinite to E Pt II? What about the digipak versions of newer albums and the japanese editions?

Edit: my current collection

Only your friends in Facebook can see this list...

Hmm, weird. I set it public "visible for everybody" but I'll check again.

Edit: check now if it's working.

Beast_Pete wrote:

Tero-75 wrote:

Beast_Pete wrote:Where can I find a list with the numbers of copies of each limited releases? I know that E Pt II has 800, Pt I has 2000, Intermission has 2000, but what about the small box sets from Infinite to E Pt II? What about the digipak versions of newer albums and the japanese editions?

Edit: my current collection

Only your friends in Facebook can see this list...

Hmm, weird. I set it public "visible for everybody" but I'll check again.

Edit: check now if it's working.

Nope, it still takes me to front page.

Beast_Pete wrote:Where can I find a list with the numbers of copies of each limited releases? I know that E Pt II has 800, Pt I has 2000, Intermission has 2000, but what about the small box sets from Infinite to E Pt II? What about the digipak versions of newer albums and the japanese editions?

Perhaps Jens could help with this if we ask him nicely If he send an inquiry to every record label Stratovarius has had a deal with, they might even answer
But what do we want to know?

-What albums and versions has each label published from Strato?
-How many copies were printed
-Cataloug numbers of every album and version
-Have they lisenced any other company to publish Stratovarius albums, who?

Anything else?

Beast_Pete wrote:Hmm, weird. I set it public "visible for everybody" but I'll check again.

Edit: check now if it's working.

Nope, it still takes me to front page of facebook

Stratovarius - Fright Night (Remastered)
Stratovarius - Fright Night (Vinyl)
Stratovarius - Stratovarius II (CD)
Stratovarius - Twilight Time
Stratovarius - Twilight Time (Japanese)
Stratovarius - Dreamspace
Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension
Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension (Vinyl)
Stratovarius - Episode
Stratovarius - Visions
Stratovarius - Visions (Japanese)
Stratovarius - Destiny
Stratovarius - Infinite
Stratovarius - Infinite (Box Set CD1)
Stratovarius - Infinite (Box Set CD2)
Stratovarius - Intermission
Stratovarius - Elements Part I
Stratovarius - Elements Part I (Limited Box Set CD2)
Stratovarius - Elements Part I (Double Vinyl)
Stratovarius - Elements Part I (Limited CD2)
Stratovarius - Elements Part II
Stratovarius - Elements Part II (Limited CD2)
Stratovarius - Stratovarius (Limited Digipak - dedicated 5/5 with Lauri)
Stratovarius - The Past and Now (Japanese - dedicated 5/5 with Lauri)
Stratovarius - 14 Diamonds (Japanese)
Stratovarius - The Chosen Ones (Japanese)
Stratovarius - Visions of Europe
Stratovarius - Wings of Tomorrow (Vinyl)
Stratovarius - Black Diamond (CDs Only Japanese)
Stratovarius - A Million Light Years Away (CDs)
Stratovarius - A Million Light Years Away (7"s)
Stratovarius - It's A Mystery (7"s)
Stratovarius - Eagleheart (CDs)
Stratovarius - Eagleheart (Limited Shaped)
Stratovarius - I Walk to my Own Song (Limited Shaped)
Stratovarius - Maniac Dance (Limited Digipak)
Timo Tolkki - Hymn to Life (dedicated)



The 13 studio albums.


The Singles I have.


The Japanese editions.


Miscellaneous rarities.


All the Vinyls I've got.


Hymn to Life dedicated by Timo Tolkki.

Impressive!!! You are really richly endowed.

Beast_Pete wrote:
The Japanese editions.

"The Chosen Ones" was never released in Japan, your copy is a Taiwanese edition released by Magnum Music TW.

That's MOST impresive Beast_Pete... It almost makes me feel shame on my post, but I'll post it anways xD.
Poor albums u u... all OWNED [?]


I have the most basic collection ever. The studio albums, Visions of Europe and Infinite Visions.


It's very hard to get special editions and werird stuff here in México.

I ordered a special edition of Polaris of CD +7 Vinyl on Amazon.com but they tricked me and I'll never get mine ¬¬...
Well, they didn't charge for it but I won't have it now.


I ordered Fright Night to Amazon about a month ago and nothing yet... I hate Amazon now -_-U

P.S. The little one on the pics is my doll Shinku

HinatAArcticA wrote: I ordered Fright Night to Amazon about a month ago and nothing yet... I hate Amazon now -_-U

I ordered Fright Night months ago for 17$ and got it right. Never had a problem with Amazon... I f***** love that store

I live in Caracas, btw

VictorTDD wrote:"The Chosen Ones" was never released in Japan, your copy is a Taiwanese edition released by Magnum Music TW.

Yeah I just checked it now and you were right. Thanks for pointing it out!

AAAAAAAAA wrote: Impressive!!!You are really richly endowed.

Thanks A9!
Unfortunately I'm not rich endowed, but I try to spare money for my collection. I need to beat my finnish friend, Pekka and he is still in front of me with around 15 items.

@HinatAArcticA: you shouldn't feel ashamed, I think it's not about shame or pride. And you can get to more StratoItems as time progresses. I bouth my first CD at the begining of 2003, it was Destiny and then followed by Elements Part I. And I always buy something rare in Wacken and as it was my 5th WOA this year you can imagine how easy it was for me to get my hands on some rare items.

I feel bad showing these horrific photos as

- that horrible mat isn't the best possible platform to put them
- some things really don't show, for example the Twilight Time CD and the cover of my Polaris version... and I didn't bother to edit. But it really is Polaris! ;_;
- I had a hard time doing that arrangement - cleaned up my room for it, most of, and I even had to float in the air when I took the photos of opened cases.

What is interesting to see are the many different editions that there are for each album... that's nice

ii have Intermission, Elements pt.1, Infinite and Polaris

Episode, Visions, Visions of Europe, Infinite, Polaris. All on CD (except that I bought the Polaris version with DU/KON/SS on vinyl).

I'm thinking about starting from "the beginning", collect all of 'em on vinyl. I know it can be hard, but I'll give it a try. Vinyl rules:D

i have
twilight time
dreamspace
fourth dimension
infinite
intermission
elements part 1
elements part 2
polaris

and the chosen ones

and i had visions, but somefucking one stole my car...
with visions, rabbit don't come easy(helloween), gates of oblivion(dark moor), the eastern tribute(helloween tribute)...

Kraven wrote:and i had visions, but somefucking one stole my car...
with visions, rabbit don't come easy(helloween), gates of oblivion(dark moor), the eastern tribute(helloween tribute)...

I can't decide what would piss me up more, losing a car or losing Visions and Rabbit. >_< That thief was a total jerk!

DreamT wrote:I'm thinking about starting from "the beginning", collect all of 'em on vinyl. I know it can be hard, but I'll give it a try. Vinyl rules:D

Unfortunately not all the albums were released in LP format.

Fright Night was
Twilight Time was (with the title Stratovarius II)
Dreamspace wasn't
Fourth Dimension was
Episode was (maybe the rarest)
Visions wasn't
Destiny wasn't
Inifinite wasn't (at least I have no such information)
Intermission was?? (I saw some being sold on net, but I haven't seen it before)
Elements Pt 1 was
Elements Pt 2 was
Stratovarius was
Polaris was

But once Vic comes into this thread, he can tell it more precisely. This is as accurate of information as I can serve with.

Dreamspace was released in Lp.I have it

All released Strato vinyls:

Albums
Fright Night [CBS 463416 1]
II (Feet Cover) [BLR-335-LP]
Twilight Time [TT 002-1]
Dreamspace [TT 0008-1]
Fourth Dimension [TT 0014-1]
Episode [TT 0022-1]
Infinite [NB 464-1]
Intermission [NB 586-1]
Elements Pt. 1 [NB 1037-1]
Elements Pt. 2 [NB 1176-1]
Stratovarius [MYNLP040]
Polaris [0196731ERE]

Singles
Future Shock [CBS 653025 7]
Black Night [CBS 654611 7]
Break The Ice [BLR-4518-SP]
Wings Of Tomorrow [TT 0014-5]
It's A Mystery [NB 563-7]
A Million Light Years Away [NB 569-7]

And Polaris Collector's Edition [0196737ERE] also includes a 7" vinyl

A new LP and something very unique, though not an album... only one piece of it exists in the World.

Beast_Pete wrote:

A new LP and something very unique, though not an album... only one piece of it exists in the World.

Omfg a pillow!:-D

VictorTDD wrote:All released Strato vinyls:

Albums
Fright Night [CBS 463416 1]
II (Feet Cover) [BLR-335-LP]
Twilight Time [TT 002-1]
Dreamspace [TT 0008-1]
Fourth Dimension [TT 0014-1]
Episode [TT 0022-1]
Infinite [NB 464-1]
Intermission [NB 586-1]
Elements Pt. 1 [NB 1037-1]
Elements Pt. 2 [NB 1176-1]
Stratovarius [MYNLP040]
Polaris [0196731ERE]

Singles
Future Shock [CBS 653025 7]
Black Night [CBS 654611 7]
Break The Ice [BLR-4518-SP]
Wings Of Tomorrow [TT 0014-5]
It's A Mystery [NB 563-7]
A Million Light Years Away [NB 569-7]

And Polaris Collector's Edition [0196737ERE] also includes a 7" vinyl

Ok, do you have any clue about the availability?