Inventors Fair Lime

‘Roll up, Roll up, the inventors fair is here'.

‘Come see the miraculous, the incredible, the fan-tab-u-lous' announced the orator from his tiny wooden podium. He then leans forward and whispers to you ‘I know that fantabulous is not a word, but this is an inventors fair and if you can't invent a few words here and there, then what's the point, ay!' His moustache twitches in excitement which seems to accentuate the shiny baldness of his head.

‘Buy your tickets here' he announces to the crowd gesticulating in a strange flourish of twisting wrists towards the booth and turnstile.

‘Now good people, ladies and gentlemen, have you been acquainted with the astounding Mr Arac, who will be demonstrating his incredible Home Spider Dentistry Kit or what about Dr Faustus and his amazing security device, The Magic Void'. He pauses for effect before he continues ‘it's a new type of safe which hides your valuables inside a surprising quirk of space-time itself.' Go see him, he's at stall number 253, but then he mutters to you under his breath ‘I suggest you don't let him Magic Void your pet, last one came back a little squishy and the boys keeper was quite disgruntled.'

Suddenly you have a ticket and are through the barrier, and there before you is stall - upon stall - upon stall, this is the inventors fair. Tents and turrets are pitched everywhere, flags and banners billow as smartly suited visitors amble between the stalls. Noises fizz from displays where plumes of pink and purple smoke waft from curious contraptions to the left, right and just about everywhere.

A voting paper is then thrust into your hand and you notice it has six spaces for nominations, this is what you need to fill in and post before you exit.

You glance back and see the sun glint off the Orators shiny head as he disappears back through the gates. His wrists spin above his glistening head as he funnels and encourages more paying visitors through the turnstiles.

Now to the fair.

As you approach the stall there was sprinkle you see a stall with a button You press it and a doughnut comes out .And you put it back in and it doubles it you hear a ping to say it has completely finished. And you smell sugar and Oreos.

You can type up any flavoure of your doughnut.And it will appear. And if you it back in it will double it again and you can have any sauce or topping you want. Even any food colouring you want of your dough. It is only £1:00 for one double doughnut with anything on it.

Someone walks past and is about to buy a double doughnut with pink dogh blue sauce yellow sprinkles and Oreo topping. After all the machine blows up but if you put two doughnuts together and it makes a double stall. There is two buttons and if you press them both it makes a three doughnuts at the same time with any colour you type up.

Suddenly he heard a scream...

As you approach the stall, you see a huge machine, copper and gold:you want to see what it does. On the grass path, woman walks away with a bright yellow football top on like no other. You realise that it is a custom designed top and wonder where they got it. "Excuse me,"I said. Cautiously, she stopped. I want to know where she got her top. Then she said it is from a booth behind her. You hear a huge bang which makes you jump out of your skin. You walk over to the booth to check out how she got her cool top.

"Roll up, roll up," said a voice. "I'm Dr Curly and this is Professor Bang's and we're going to show you some jaw-dropping tops from the Designer 3000". You listen in on the introduction of his booth and want to see what the machine can do. He asks a child to draw their dream football top and you watch to child as they draw. Dr Curly shows everyone the picture and Professor Bang enters it into the machine. BANG! You realise where you heard the noise from earlier. Professor Bang took out a light purple top and held it up and another and another. Everyone was shocked. No one said a word. It was a miracle.

All of a sudden, the machine started to malfunction:you are confused. It was working two seconds ago:you hear a beeping sound. "How did that happen, that was sneaky," said everyone. The machine kept buzzing and shaking. The machine's padlock started to jangle, the latch clicked. Out of the drawer a top started to pop out. The tops were like animals and were biting hard. Smoke started to come out of the machine:it was worrying you. Everyone sprinted. It was so much fun but it had to come to an end, everyone was full of sadness. Professor Bang was still there. The Designer 3000 was about to blow... (Will it?)

As you approach the stall you see a big sign saying magic football, and at the front there are magic footballs everywhere. When you look at the magic footballs you will see a man called Geoff dressed in plain white full football kit. There is a goal net to try the ball out if you want to but you smell rubber and plastic in the air and wonder why. It will be in a colour lime

The ball will always go into the net no matter what . If you don't kick the ball them it will still score a goal . If you hit it hard them it will deferently go in the net. It work by electretly. That's how it works.

If you kick the magic football to hard it will blow up.lava Mit come out .If it doesn't get charged in 1 hour then it might not work. You will need to charge it.

On the way to the next exhibit you pass several people with what would appear to be snow in their hair, which seems very odd with the weather in the way it is. Then you arrive at ‘the human snow globe' which is a huge glass dome and inside you can see several people walking around a little ruined castle making a snow man and throwing snow balls. Out of the top of the little folly, snow is whizzing about and it looks very convincing indeed but there is not enough space for sledging which is a shame.

On the table are hundreds of smaller snow globes just like the larger one, visitors coming out of the big dome are running over to the table and shaking the globes ‘there you are Dad' said the boy ‘oh and this one has Mum in too'. And sure enough the miniature snow globes had tiny captured 3D tableaus of the family playing in the snow just moments before.

‘Shall we get one for the mantelpiece?' said the father and the boy nodded.

Before you move on make a note on your voting slip as to what you think of this invention.

As you approach the stall you see a huge machine with lots of colourfully food colouring in it.The white plain gumballs go in and then they come out colourful and when you bite in to them your teeth go colourful and rainbow colours and to get your rainbow teeth away you have to brush you teeth five times a day for three days and if you don't brush you teeth you will turn into a unicorn.

To turn your self back to a human you have to eat Oreos every day for two weeks.The good things about the machine it will never go wrong and it will never brake like the glass the shape of a dome will never crack and never ever fall to pieces.But If it ever brakes or goes wrong the gumballs will go black and the food colouring inside the gumballs will go black as well.If you bite in to them your teeth will go black for ever and if you turn in to a unicorn you will turn in to a frog in stead.

To get the gumballs colourful you have to put every colouring in the world sept from black.You have to put all the colours in a big tube so then the plain white gumballs will go rainbow.When they come out they will go bright and colourful.Then you will be able to eat them and become a unicorn because unicorns are fun. THE END

You pass quite a few exhibits in the next hour, one called ‘the Big Ear' which appeared to be exactly what it said and would help you listen over great distances. They obviously hadn't invented the telephone yet!

Another stall was called the thinking machine, which listened and thought but little more. The inventor seemed embarrassed as he'd yet to invent the answer machine, which even he admitted would be far more useful.

Then finally you come across the Boot-o-matic an incredible machine which was lacing up boots on volunteers left right and centre. You sit in the chair yourself with your shoe laces undone and the tiny little machine ties them up in a flash. You are so impressed that you undo them quickly again and the Boot-O-Matic has them re done, just like that.

Of all the inventions that would save some time in the morning perhaps this was one which would in fact be truly useful. But then you notice the person getting into the chair after you with Velcro straps on his shoes and a cheeky grin on his face, I wonder how the Boot-O-Matic will deal with that!

So make a mark on your voting slip, have a chat between each other as to what you think.

Now over to the exit to meet the Orator and hand in your voting slips.

The Orator approaches, bald head glistening in the sun.

‘Place your sheets in the box and we'll see who the Inventor Supremo is in the 117th inventors fair'.

Is there one invention which is the best in your opinion? Have a discussion now and see which you think is the most impressive, when you have decided then please read on.

‘Good good.' Says the orator as you post your sheets, but suddenly there is a huge sound from the middle of the field, you look over and see a jet of blue flame snatch up into the air. A BOOM follows which is so loud you feel it in your chest, and the orators mouth drops open aghast at what is unfolding.

A flash follows with attendants and visitors running pell-mell away from the ‘Mr Bubbles, double bubble super fizz pop' tent. ‘Run for cover' they shout as people dive behind bales of straw just before the BIG explosion.

The next events seem to happen in slow motion as tents flatten across the field and flags bend horizontally away from the epicentre of Mr Bubbles. Then a black wall sweeps across towards you and there is only a moment to duck before it engulfs you. But thankfully it passes in a moment and you stand again to see the orator is covered head to foot in soot! He turns with mouth still open and moustache intact to the single flash of a reporter's camera.

‘Well it would appear that the 117th inventors fair has come to an abrupt end' he says to you with eyebrows raised as high as they will go.

The next day the local paper lands on your hall carpet with this very photograph, the orator is central, treacle black from head to foot and behind him the stately metal dome of Mr Bubbles is spurting with a mountain of foam.

The headline runs with ‘Inventor's Bubble Trouble. Hundreds flee from catastrophic fizzy pop explosion at the 117th inventors fair'.

To the left of the picture you can see yourself looking rather surprised.

What an event!


The End

What inventions would you have liked to have seen at the fair?

Are they big or small, can they be held in your hand, or carried on your back?

Is it edible, totally credible or just downright daft!

Have a talk amongst yourselves whilst the other groups catch up.