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Well, in keeping with the, well, I don't know how long it's been, but it's been a long time, repack schedule, our friends at Focus on the Family have released the new and improved edition of Album 7:On Thin Ice. It should be hitting shelves soon. We don't have a definite date for when it will be released. 

Now I will talk just a little bit about the repack schedule. The Odyssey Scoop has a very detailed chart of it, which you can check out at this link: http://www.odysseyscoop.com/merchandise/repacks.htm . Anyway, the first repacks were released in 2007, and as of now we have nine repacks left to be released, ten if you count On Thin Ice. The albums left to be repackaged are: Album 9:Just in Time, Album 10: Other Times, Other Places, Album 11:It's Another Fine Day, Album 12: At Home and Abroad, Album 13: It All Started When..., Album 14: Meanwhile, In Another Part of Town, Album 26: Back On the Air, Album 38: Battle Lines, and Album 42: No Way Out. If everything goes as plans, "It's Another Fine Day..." will be released in August of 2017. 

Anyway, the new Adventures in Odyssey blog that was hastily mentioned yesterday will be examined somewhat more indepth today. It is called "Out of Control in Odyssey", and is run by a brother and sister that call themselves "The Josh and Ally Kompany".The summary for the blog is, "Odyssey Out of Control takes a humorous, modern look at the town of Odyssey, reviewing new episodes,revisiting old ones, and discovering little known facts about the town and ourselves as we go. Of course, this blog will look at the biggest question: What's the most logical way to explain the ages of all the characters without using the words 'time parodox?'" So far, I can't tell if tere's going to be a typical style of writing with their posts, but what I have seen so far I love. If Josh and Ally keep this up, it has a very good chance of being my favorite Adventures in Odyssey blog. So far there are only two posts, but they have great variety between each one. Variety is a very good thing, though. Also, there is a small feature that I love. They have a list of their next topics they will be talking about on the side of the blog by the links and everything. Anyway, last night after my post announcing that Out of Control in Odyssey was out, they released a new, and very interesting article. It's titled "Sunday Morning Scramble School-Idolatry", and you can check it out on this link: http://odysseyoutofcontrol.blogspot.com/2012/07/sunday-morning-scramble-school-idolatry.html 
So,anyway, keep up the good work, guys. I'm looking forward to many more good posts.

Now, some Twists and Turns news, and some other miscellaneous Odyssey news. Josh from Out of Control in Odyssey somehow fund my site and commented on yesterday's post, so I would like to say thatmy site is not totally isolated! I was really excited, and somewhat shocked, that somebody outside of the Soda Shop Message Boards found my site. So that's good. Also, speaking of people knowing my site, David Hilder of the Adventures in Odyssey Update, my main source for Adventures in Odyssey news, used my piece of news about the return of AIO 24/7. He even mentioned that he got the news from my site and put a link up. He has every possible source for Odyssey news, so that he would even look at a site like mine, and give me credit for an article is astounding. Thank you, David. Also, Abby and Mandie's Adventures in Odyssey Podcast Episode #5 was recorded today, so unless something goes terribly wrong, it will be out tomorrow.  One more thing I just remembered, in an effort to add more link to The Imagination Station in response to Alex Jefferson's review of Twists and Turns last night, I stumbled upon some old sites. I then thought, "Wouldn't it be cool if somebody had a link page that carried all the defunct Odyssey fan sites so us fans could scroll through them?" So I embarked on that quest. If you scroll down to the bottom of The Imagination Station, you'll see a heading that says, "Defunct Sites". I only have four sites on it right now, but I will slowly add on. My goal is to have all the old Odyssey fan sites on my link page. So, the sites I added today are: The Ceiling Fan, The Unofficial Adventures in Odyssey Podcast, Out of Control in Odyssey, The Odyssey Way, Campbell County Connection, The Odyssey Muchacha, AIOHQ, and The Soda Fountain. Well, that's all for now, so stay tuned, and I hope you enjoy Twists and Turns!
                                                                                                                        ---The Old Judge

(P.S. I would like to welcome Suzylou from the Soda Shop Message Boards to TNT Insider!)

 
Well, hello again. I'm back, with some really big news. Probably two weeks before I started Twists and Turns, Adventures in Odyssey 24/7 shut down due to lack of finances. Well, I'm going to tell you a little story. HannahJ got on the Soda Shop Message Boards and started talking about how amazing Advemtures in Odyssey 24/7 is. I told her that it was shut down, and she said it wasn't. I asked if she could give me a link, and here it is. http://den-a.plr.liquidcompass.net/player/flash/audio_player.php?id=AIOIR&uid=622 .
It lives! So, that was probably my most important piece of news. I hope you like it.
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Also, Just Another AIO Blog has just released his reviews of The Unofficial AIO Blog and my site. Alex Jefferson is a very good writer, and he's painfully honest. He kept track of points between the Unofficial and my site, and guess what?, I lost. He's brutally honest, but that's a good thing. I thank him for reviewing my website, and it truly was a good review. You can check the review out at http://www.justanotheraioblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/aio-article-twists-and-turns-unofficial.html . Speaking of Just Another AIO Blog, I designed a page for them on the AIOWiki. If you want to, you can check the page out at http://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/Just_Another_AIO_Blog

Also, on the Town of Odyssey Message Boards, I caught word of a new Adventures in Odyssey blog entitled, Out of Control in Odyssey. So far there's only one post, and I don't know if there will be any more, but in the meantime, you should check it out. The link is http://odysseyoutofcontrol.blogspot.com/

The Adventures in Odyssey team on Twitter posted two days ago about something that could be a new episode title for Album 56. If this is true, the episode will be called "Push the Red Button" and the sound will be done by Rob Jorgenson. This sounds like a Room of Consequence adventure.........I'm just joking. It sounds like an Imagination Station adventure, but aside from what I just said, nothing else is known about this episode.

Inspired by Alex Jefferson's review, I added three more actors to Odyssey Actors:Then and Now, and three more trivia facts to Trivia 101! I just wrote the Courtroom Case 006: "The Old Judge's Verdict On Odyssey's Changing Times". Also, I will not be on here from Monday to Friday. I know I said this before, but I will have no access to a computer or any other piece of technology all next week. So, I'm sorry. The good thing is, for you, I mean, is whenever I'm gone, really amazing news happens. Well, that's all for now, so stay tuned, and I hope you enjoy Twists and Turns! 
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Well, I'm here again, reporting what little news there is to be reported. I wasn't going to do a post today, because I like to have at least three little pieces of news or one big piece of news. Sadly, there was no big news, but all of a sudden I found a third little piece of news, so I went ahead and did this post.
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First of all, I would like to say, since this blog was started, I have only written about one piece of news from the Odyssey Scoop. This wasn't any big official thing, but when I read it, I loved it. This was just a nice little article. Once again, there has been no official news in five days, and I've reported a lot of news. The fans seemed to step up to the plate this summer. Last summer the only thing that actually had any activity was the Scoop, and it was really slow activity. This summer, however, there has been a lot of news. One of the goals of "In Hot Pursuit" is to report news in other fan sites, and, I will say, I have done more of that than reporting official news. But, I'm rambling, so back to the news with the Odyssey Scoop. I'll just give a short summary, and you can read the rest on the Scoop. Apparently, four brothers went to the Get in the Show event the day before the Birthday Bash. Some of the actors were there, including Will Ryan, who, as everybody knows, is the voice of Eugene. One of the boys arranged the song "O-D-Y Double S-E-Y" from the Eugene Sings! album for barbershop quartet. They sang at the event, and you can read what happened on the Scoop. The Scoop also has a recording of it, and you can listen to it there. The link is http://odysseyscoop.com/blog/2012/07/02/eugene-sings-at-adventures-in-odyssey-birthday-bash/ .


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The Unofficial AIO Blog is finally back in action with.......the interview with Paul McCusker! I read it, and it was very good. I always love hearing from Paul McCusker, especially him talking about the Passages series. You can check out the interview here: http://unofficialaioblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/interview-withpaul-mccusker.html .

Speaking of The Unofficial AIO Blog, it has a page on the AIOWiki. I tried my best, but it's not some excessively huge page. If you want to check it out, you can go to the link here: http://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/The_Unofficial_Adventures_in_Odyssey_Blog.

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I know this came out two days ago, but some of you might not know, so I'll talk about it anyway. The Boredom Buster Podcast is becoming somewhat more than just a podcast, and that's a good thing. That's why, if you'll look to your left, the website has a different logo than the podcast. Anyway, part of the expansion was the wallpaper, and the other part was an Articles page. Well, it now has one article, entitled, "Keep Listening!: How God uses AIO. Well for me at least." He has said before that he's not a writer, but he did an excellent job on this article. He made a wonderful first impression, and I can't wait for more. The podcast is superb enough, but these articles are good, too. If you haven't read it and you want to, the link is http://boredombusterpodcast.weebly.com/1-keep-listening.html

Now, it's time for just some miscellaneous news. Abby and Mandie's Adventures in Odyssey Podcast Episode #5 is supposed to come out on Saturday, and Bren is editing the Whit's End Podcast Episode #74, so hopefully it will be coming out soon. A special episode of The Ceiling Fan Podcast was recorded Saturday, and Episode #46 of selfsame podcast is being worked on. Well, that's all for now, so stay tuned, and I hope you enjoy Twists and Turns!
                                                                                                                          ---The Old Judge


 
Okay, I'm am absolutely positively flabbergasted. That's the only way I can describe it. Lots and lots of news. And it all requires pictures.

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Well, first of all, if you actually care about the "About the Author" column to your right you'll know that I'm an editor on the AIOWiki. Well, I did more than just editing. Twists and Turns and the Boredom Buster Podcast haves pages on it now! You can access the BBP's page here: http://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/The_Boredom_Buster_Podcast , and Twists and Turns' page here: http://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/Twists_and_Turns_(Website) .

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Next, the Boredom Buster Podcast now has a Features page, but all they have as of now is a Wallpaper feature. They have Odyssey and BBP-themed wallpaper. If you want to check it out, the link is http://boredombusterpodcast.weebly.com/wallpaper.html

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Thirdly, Alex Jefferson of Just Another AIO Blog has released his "Big Change". It is superb. There is a page for contests, which currently there are none, but what has most of us excited is his "Adventures in Connelsville" page. It's in a storybook format with a new "chapter" being released every week. Also, he hosted an interview with Wooton Bassett from the Unofficial AIO Blog.......and for some reason, me. I really don't understand. I've been part of the Adventures in Odyssey online community for less than a month. But I do appreciate the chance to do that, so thank you. If you want to check all these big changes out, go to the link, which just happens to be here: http://www.justanotheraioblog.blogspot.com/ .

While we're talking about Alex Jefferson, he has started a new Adventures in Odyssey message board! I'm so excited, and I joined. The format is really amazing. It doesn't have a logo yet, but hey, it's only two days old. It's called the Exclusive AIO Forum, but anyone can join. We'd love to have you. If you want to join, or just to check it out, go to http://z13.invisionfree.com/Exclusive_AIO_Forum .

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And finally, (Don't worry, this is the end. You can all go back to your normal lives after this and not have to read my rambling writing.) Abby and Mandie's Adventures in Odyssey Podcast Episode #4 is out! I was so excited. It had been quite a while since we had heard from them. I was beginning to think that they had stopped. But, no. Before I give you my opinions on this episode, here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATLkcT_gLY8&feature=plcp . In this episode Abby interviews Zach Callison! It was awesome! Don't worry, there were different questions than in the BlogCast interview. Someone is a very popular boy. Now, I will say the sound quality was pretty poor, and for the first few questions I couldn't understand Zach at all. Abby said it was something with the recorder, I believe. Now, about half way through, I began to hear Zach, and then I enjoyed myself. I liked when he talked about him getting the scripts for the Green Ring Conspiracy and what he did, the cramming ten people into a six people studio and two little isolation chambers, and what happened when he met an actor whose name I cannot remember for the life of me. If you can wait until you hear Zach's voice, then you've made it to the good part and you'll really enjoy yourself. Keep up the good work, girls! I can't wait for Episode #5! 

Now, to wrap up, either tonight or tomorrow, I will be releasing The Courtroom Case 005:"The Old Judge's Verdict on if The Barclays Should Return". Now, I know this an extremely controversial topic, the same if not more than Penny and Wooton. After this I have only one more idea for the Courtroom, so please send some in. Otherwise, it won't stay open. I just updated my home page now, so if you want, you can go check that out. Also, I just thought this was cool. If you look under "Archives" to your right, there is now a "July 2012" and a  "June 2012". Don't get mad at me for pointing that out. Some of you are probably saying, "He's just wasting my time posting useless nonsense." I just take pleasure in the little things in life. Well, that's all for now. Stay tuned, and I hope you enjoy Twists and Turns!
                                                                                                                    ---The Old Judge