Robot Reindeer

As a city of the future, today, Bracknell is always ahead of other towns in Britain and this is particularly true of Bracknell's Christmas decorations. So proud is the town of its unique way of celebrating Jesus's birth, that it begins to do so in mid November. From about this time, the town council unleashes its famous robot deer, which, as can be seen in the picture, dash, dance, prance and vixen all over the shopping centre. Their ambitious designer, anxious to make his mark, fitted them with anti-gravity hooves allowing them to climb walls and spring from car park level to elevated walk way like demented and very large, metal squirrels. By the first of December the Bracknellians are understandably irritated by these clanking deer-like automata. This explains the second part of the season's town centre festivities which involves gangs of dangerous dog owning residents pursuing the reindeer until the latter's batteries run out on or around Christmas day. The robot deer are then unceremoniously dismembered and dumped outside the council offices. Don't worry, they'll be back again in time for next year's celebrations.

Flying Hovercars

The use of the nuclear powered moon scooter as the chief method of getting about in Bracknell is well known but it could so easily have been different. This prototype flying hovercar was one of the most hotly anticipated items ever to be featured in the Bracknell Forest Standard. Disappointingly, like so many other seemingly ace ideas including the Sinclair C5, the flying hovercar was critically flawed. Keen to reduce the weight of the thing in order to enable flight, the designers decided to omit any fuel storage, preferring to rely on mains power. This meant that upon take off, the range of the flying hovercar was limited, in the case of the pictured prototype, to the 36 inch length of the flex between the craft and the mains socket.