How 'limited' were the Parallel Universe series guitars?

[graceless]

Subject pretty much says it all. Would love some info on production numbers for these. Some seem nigh impossible to find, some seem to be everywhere...

The Squier Paranormal releases got me wondering.... some a total hit, some a total flop, and made me GAS for some sort of simplified jag strat (which exists, but the Fender incarnation is quite possibly the ugliest thing I have ever seen in 20+ years of playing)

[vistavision]

I don't know the run numbers but that series was offered to Fender dealers who then could choose to sign up for it. Not all of them did. Each month for a year a new model would drop. The runs probably weren't more than the low thousands, if that.

[graceless]

Interesting intel. I would love if Fender actually serialized these runs - 0/1000, for example. Though I'm sure, depressingly, they've run focus groups or something that shows research that people pay more if they don't reveal that info

[mekhem]

They did not serialize the runs but I think they were capped at 250-300 or something like that.

[Lieutenant030]

I had to Google Jag Strat........cheers, thanks for that.

[graceless]

I had to Google Jag Strat........cheers, thanks for that.

Sorry Go google cute small animals to erase the visual

[Larry Mal]

Not limited enough, most of them.

[graceless]

Not limited enough, most of them.

I'll agree that many should have been limited to zero.

Some were absolutely amazing.

[Wucan]

Must be pretty rare. I only saw them when they were on the floor, then again when retaileres were discounting or buyers who wanted to flip for profit regretted their investment.

[Embenny]

They seem to be rare enough for their prices to have skyrocketed.

I bought one of those Meteoras locally, and one year later got more than double my money out of it.

It played great but I never could get over the looks - and it was far from the ugliest model they released in that series.

[sal paradise]

This was quite cool

[graceless]

This was quite cool

Yes, honestly this and the 'Jazz Strat' are some of the coolest guitars fender has made in the last 20 years

[JSett]

I'll agree that many should have been limited to zero.

Came here to post the very same thing

The Jazz Strat and Tele were cool though, in an ugly-duckling kinda way.

[Zork]

Most of the second series were pretty cool, imo. Volume 1 appealed not so much to me but I liked that blue lespaulish Tele.