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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9434146" data-attributes="member: 7044704">This particular one is a great cover, very eye-catching, but even as a kid I recall wondering what the heck was going to happen when those eggs finished hatching.&nbsp; Unless the young can fly from word one, there's no nest to keep them from falling and precious little room on that spire for seven chicks.&nbsp; Not even really sure how the adult plans on landing safely.&nbsp; Also note that the eggs are literally embedded in the surface of the plant (mushroom?&nbsp; whatever?), which at least explains why they didn't need a nest to stay up there long enough to hatch.We had a lot of bird boxes when I was young.&nbsp; Once you see how nesting actually works it's harder to suspend disbelief even with butterfly-bird-dragon-things.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think I'd say &quot;especially White Dwarf&quot; myself- it started out with so much variety and promise and fell so far into house organ land.&nbsp; That said, one spot where being a house organ didn't hurt was Challenge, which actually improved post-JTAS in my opinion.&nbsp; Plenty of art and article variety there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9434146, member: 7044704"] This particular one is a great cover, very eye-catching, but even as a kid I recall wondering what the heck was going to happen when those eggs finished hatching. Unless the young can fly from word one, there's no nest to keep them from falling and precious little room on that spire for seven chicks. Not even really sure how the adult plans on landing safely. Also note that the eggs are literally embedded in the surface of the plant (mushroom? whatever?), which at least explains why they didn't need a nest to stay up there long enough to hatch. We had a lot of bird boxes when I was young. Once you see how nesting actually works it's harder to suspend disbelief even with butterfly-bird-dragon-things. :) I think I'd say "especially White Dwarf" myself- it started out with so much variety and promise and fell so far into house organ land. That said, one spot where being a house organ didn't hurt was Challenge, which actually improved post-JTAS in my opinion. Plenty of art and article variety there. [/QUOTE]

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