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A Black Mirror-inspired newsagents has been erected in Grand Central - days after a special interactive episode dropped on Netflix.

Bandersnatch was released by Netflix in December, giving viewers the chance to "choose" their own adventure.

The store in Grand Central is situated upstairs, on the main concourse next to Nando’s.

The newsagents and game store - which is like something straight out of the 1980s - has opened in Birmingham city centre - and its name will delight Black Mirror fans.

Fans of the Netflix series will notice the name alludes to the game company featured in the latest instalment of the anthology series.

Starring Will Poulter, Fionn Whitehead and Craig Parkinson, Bandersnatch sees viewers make decisions for the main character, the young programmer Stefan Butler.

(Image: Tom Lewsam/Twitter)

A piece of science fiction and horror, Bandersnatch incorporates meta-commentary and rumination on free will.

The protagonist, played by Dunkirk star Whitehead, is adapting a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure novel into a video game in 1984.

Other characters include Mohan Thakur (Asim Chaudhry) and Colin Ritman (Poulter), both of whom work at a video game company, Tuckersoft.

Twitter user Tom Lewsam posted today: "Loving the blackmirror newsagents at GrandCentral Birmingham WestMidlands. Even the merchandise in the window display are previous blackmirror episodes!"

Pictures show Bandersnatch posters in the windows, with comic books relating to previous episodes San Junipero and USS Callister.

Gaming consoles inside the shop are emblazoned with Tuckersoft imagery, too.

(Image: Tom Lewsam/Twitter)

The film is based on a planned Imagine Software video game of the same name which went unreleased after the company filed for bankruptcy.

It also alludes to Lewis Carroll's own works that feature the bandersnatch creature.

The shop offers computers, magazines and stationery.

Like previous episodes, Bandersnatch makes several allusions to previous Black Mirror episodes.

The "branching path" symbol which Davis and later Butler experience is equivalent in a digital version to the symbol used in White Bear.

Butler attends counselling at the Saint Juniper clinic, while Tuckersoft alludes to the San Junipero company TCKR.

The store isn’t actually open to the public - BirminghamLive has approached both Netflix and Grand Central have been approached for comment.

(Image: Ella Timms/@nutella10101)

References to events associated with other Black Mirror episodes can be seen in news stories shown in brief shots of the pages of The Sun newspaper and on a television news crawl.

One of Tuckersoft's successful games is Metl Hedd, a reference to Metalhead, also directed by Slade, while Ritman is shown to be working on a game called Nohzdyve, referencing the episode Nosedive.

n one ending, the sound of a computer data tape recording is heard; loading the sound into a ZX Spectrum provides the viewer with a QR code with the White Bear glyph in the middle that leads to the fictional Tuckersoft website, where a playable copy of the ZX Spectrum game Nohzdyve can be downloaded.