RESIN1
Super Freak
What a fantastic idea! I hope it will go ahead. If you have to vote or something...... lets do it! Here's the link:
www.liveleak.com/view?i=f94_1298029831
www.liveleak.com/view?i=f94_1298029831
As usual sci-fi getting the shaft. Damned academy.....wait...
This is old news and has already been turned down.
it seems some anonymous donor plunked down $25,000.00 and now... DETROIT is going to get its ROBOCOP statue! This, frankly, rules!
I'll keep you folks informed as to the progress of the ROBOCOP statue - and once it is erected, we'll get photos and let you know exactly how to visit it - and suggest themed notions as to how to act in its awe-inspiring presence. Alex Murphy might have lost his family, but his spirit to serve and protect, to uphold the law... it will be eternal. He may be a fictional hero, but like so many fictional heroes - that does not diminish his ability to inspire and capture imaginations.
Ahem! Taken from AICN
No Go, Robo
by Perry Michael Simon on February 9, 2011
The Facebook campaign didn’t work. The tweeting failed. It isn’t going to happen.
There will not be a RoboCop statue in Detroit. Not, at least, if Mayor Dave Bing is making the call.
Bing — yes, the Detroit Pistons legend — tweeted, “There are not any plans to erect a statue of RoboCop. Thank you for your suggestion.” So that’s that. And the fact that the movie isn’t flattering to Detroit probably didn’t help, either.
On the other hand, I’ve seen tourists flocking to, and posing for pictures with, the Mary Tyler Moore/Mary Richards beret-tossing statue in downtown Minneapolis every time I’ve been there. People seem attached to the Rocky statue in Philadelphia, even though I was against it when they first tried to plant it on the Art Museum steps (it ended up next to the Spectrum, and now near the Art Museum on Benjamin Franklin Parkway). Those things connect with people as much, or more, than statues of real people.
So what does Detroit have to lose? Why not a RoboCop statue, if they can get someone to pay for it? Hell, why not one of RoboCop, one of Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino, an Axel Foley statue, maybe one of Eminem in an emotional scene from 8 Mile… it may be schlock, but it’d be the People’s Schlock. And everyone visiting Detroit would want a picture with them. When your city needs a boost, you gotta think creatively.
Source: Detroit Free Press
Ahem, Mayor said no:
I also love that Omni Consumer Products is helping funding this.Where could the statue be placed? Is the city of Detroit backing the RoboCop Statue?
There's a whole approval process that the city goes through when accepting any charitable donation; this isn't any different, despite the popular support. We've made the appropriate steps in getting that process moving along, but we have several potential privately-funded locations on the table as well, not the least of which is across from the Michigan Central Station at Imagination Station. So, regardless of what happens with any of this, the statue is coming, and it will have a place to stand.
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