{"id":1414,"date":"2015-12-27T17:51:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T22:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2015-12-27T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T22:51:01","slug":"beginners-collection-discovering-odyssey-gets-a-refresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/27\/beginners-collection-discovering-odyssey-gets-a-refresh\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginners Collection &#8220;Discovering Odyssey&#8221; Gets a Refresh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<em>Adventures in Odyssey<\/em> brand is always a work in progress. Back in 2007, Focus on the Family released a special collection geared for introducing new fans to the show. This collection, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/merchandise\/DiscoveringOdyssey.htm\">Discovering Odyssey<\/a>, featured nine introductory episodes on 3 CD&#8217;s. This was released before the Odyssey characters were re-branded in 2010, for which artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/actors\/gary_locke.htm\">Gary Locke<\/a> has done a superb job.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DiscoveringOdyssey-versions.png\" alt=\"Discovering Odyssey\" width=\"450\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DiscoveringOdyssey-versions.png 450w, https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DiscoveringOdyssey-versions-150x73.png 150w, https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DiscoveringOdyssey-versions-400x196.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, eight years later,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/merchandise\/DiscoveringOdyssey.htm\">Discovering Odyssey<\/a>\u00a0has been repackaged to fit the design of all the current albums. The logo, arcs and rays, and illustration are now modernized to the new\u00a0<em>Adventures in Odyssey\u00a0<\/em>package design. The episodes, we assume, will remain the same, however, the bonus introductory booklet tucked inside will be updated to reflect the new character illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>We like that both versions of the album are very similar, with the illustrations nearly the same and more vibrant. Collectors, be watching for your copy of this updated version of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/merchandise\/DiscoveringOdyssey.htm\">Discovering Odyssey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With this said, can we expect to see any of the other compilation collections (example: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/merchandise\/BibleEyewitness.htm\">Bible Eyewitness<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/merchandise\/AChristmasOdyssey.htm\">A Christmas Odyssey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/merchandise\/ForGodAndCountry.htm\">For God and Country<\/a>, and others) to be refreshed to match the current AIO branding? Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/merchandise\/DiscoveringOdyssey.htm\">Discovering Odyssey<\/a>\u00a0at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/merchandise\/DiscoveringOdyssey.htm\">product page<\/a> and see a high-resolution version of the cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Adventures in Odyssey brand is always a work in progress. Back in 2007, Focus on the Family released a special collection geared for introducing new fans to the show. This collection, Discovering Odyssey, featured nine introductory episodes on 3 CD&#8217;s. This was released before the Odyssey characters were re-branded in 2010, for which artist Gary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,14],"tags":[331,46,328,330,327,326,329,45],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-products-3","tag-a-christmas-odyssey","tag-albums","tag-beginners","tag-bible-eyewitness","tag-compilations","tag-discovering-odyssey","tag-for-god-and-country","tag-repacks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DiscoveringOdyssey-3D.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2kCCw-mO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odysseyscoop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}