Agapeland Character Builders
Agapeland Character Builders was first published as a series of nine illustrated books in 1984, accompanied with vinyl/cassette recordings by Agape Force in 1985 on the Birdwing label. The series was based on the popular Music Machine series by Candle in which centers around two children Stevie and Nancy on their adventures in Agapeland. Each story focuses on Stevie and Nancy and the Agapeland critters learning valuable lessons about the fruit of the Holy Spirit while facing different conflicts and challenges. Apart from the series' representation with its colorful illustrations, singable songs and narration by the late Howard Caine, it's designed to instill children's motives with godly character traits from Faith, to Kindness, to Patience, to Self-Control.
In 1987, the stories were later picked up by Agape Force's separate for-profit corporation Anthony Paul Productions to adapt the books for video. The first instance of a video adaptation of the stories was a segment of two stories in the two volumes of Dooog's Garage Theater. However, the stories were shortened to limit the 30-minute runtime of the program. A year later, the stories were then adapted along with seven other new stories into a 16-episodic storybook video series. The series was a huge success, it received five Grammy nominations in the category of Best Children's Recording. In the early 90's, the videos were reissued as storybooks by Multnomah Productions where while some of the books retain the original illustrations as they were in 1984, the other seven books had a new color palette that differs the old color palette in the video adaptation.
Fast forward to 2003, video distributor Bridgestone Multimedia and its divisor Alpha Omega Publications released the videos on DVD with four episodes bundled on four volumes. The DVDs were later packaged as bonus discs on the 2-CD sets of the Music Machine and Bullfrogs and Butterflies. In 2007, when the company decided to remake the videos in computer animation, they consider them to be the more superior (or should we say 'inferior'), definitive way to relive the series with today's children.
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