Eddie's Archive w/ holographic sticker

[Icarus Power]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could clarify release dates, production numbers, etc. for both versions of the Eddie's Archive box set.

I started to wonder about mine, as I noticed people saying the scrolls in the first set are individually numbered (to distinguish them from the repress). But there is no number on my scroll (just K 86907-12). There is nothing matching the number on my holographic sticker on the scroll. I do have the blue inlay. Am I looking at the right number on the scroll, or did someone switch the scroll out before they sold it to me?

I've found messages from other people on forums saying that there really is a first edition (blue inlay) without numbered scroll but with a holographic sticker (is exactly my situation). This edition really exist? My box is legitimate?

I found this video that is very curious. Both are the first edition(blue inlay) and only 1 comes with the numbered scroll. How can this happen?

Any help to clarify how these came, the different versions etc. would be appreciated!

 

[Forostar]

Hi, I can only say what my package looks like. I bought it as soon as it came out.

I don't see a sticker nor recall it. Where is it exactly?

On scroll: bottom, right corner: 13882

 

[Perun]

I think the numbered scrolls are in the first edition with the blue inlay, not the second, red one.

 

[eddie666]

Bought my original on release.
On the scroll there's a box bottom right. Inside it says, "Limited Edition scoll number: 13616".
Blue inlay.

 

[Icarus Power]

 

[Icarus Power]

I think the numbered scrolls are in the first edition with the blue inlay, not the second, red one.

I thought just that. But notice in the video that I posted just above: the guy opens a blue inlay version where the scroll is not numbered.

 

[Perun]

Then it's he who had it switched.
There were also some regional editions, like the Japanese one, so maybe those were not numbered. But that's pure speculation.

 

[Icarus Power]

I found this interesting topic here in the forum just talking about this strange fact in blue inlay first edition:

http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/is-my-copy-of-eddies-archive-fake.18892/

Below threads of other users in the same situation as mine:

I have 4 copies of the first printing of Eddie's Archive, 3 of which were purchased at the store the day of release. 2 of them are opened and have the exact number as yours on the scroll. That is not the individual number. The individual number is located on a hologram sticker that was affixed to the packaging, at least on the U.S. release and the Japanese release.

I bought mine before the second edition was even thought of, I have the hologram sticker, the blue inlay, and no proper number on my scroll. Glad to know i'm not the only one

I recently got this box and need much to know if this edition that I have (blue inlay with scrool unnumbered and holografic sticker) is not fake. As you can see, other people are in the same situation, but apparently is not very common.