The Detroit RoboCop Statue
01-03-2011, 18:46
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The Detroit RoboCop Statue
I read about this a couple of weeks ago...
"Robocop statue in Detroit"
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Originally Posted by Telegraph
A group working to build a statue of the fictional crime-fighting cyborg RoboCop in the city said it has reached its fund-raising goal of $50,000 (£31,000) after a social networking campaign exploded in support of the project.
The next step: convincing the mayor and city officials it's a good idea.
"I am very positive that it's gonna happen," organiser Brandon Walley said on Wednesday.
The 10-day-old RoboCop saga started innocently enough when Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's social media manager answered a Twitter query about a possible statue. That response – "There are not any plans to erect a statue to Robocop. Thank you for the suggestion" – led to a firestorm of commentary online, with Twitter users making it a top trending topic for days.
As recently as Wednesday morning, "RoboCop" was still one of the 10 most-searched terms on Yahoo!
Imagination Station, a Detroit-based non-profit that latched on to the topic's viral fervour, set up a way for backers to donate to the project via the crowd-funding website Kickstarter.
The effort yielded more than $25,000 in donations. A private source matched the funds, and now Imagination Station has the $50,000 it has been told it would take to erect such a statue.
Bing, for his part, remains sceptical, and no timetable exists for construction.
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Now the man himself, Peter "RoboCop" Weller, has got involved with a video supporting the campaign :lol:
"Peter Weller Campaigns For Detroit 'RoboCop' Statue"
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Originally Posted by Huffington Post
An online campaign to get Detroit mayor David Bing to build a monument to the main character from the movie "RoboCop" in the troubled city has been interesting to watch. Sure, it started as kind of a joke, but the argument on Twitter is that it will bring tourism, and you have to admit it'd be pretty cool.
Now the would-be statue has received its biggest endorsement yet from none other than Peter Weller, the actor who portrayed Alex "RoboCop" Murphy. Watch the video he made for Funny Or Die below, and pretty soon you'll too have some R-E-S-P-E-C-T for the monument idea. Want to make it happen? Check out the Facebook group. |
Video link at Funny or Die
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01-03-2011, 18:59
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Re: The Detroit RoboCop Statue
Well if Philidelphia can have a Rocky statue I don't see why Detroit can't have a Robocop one! I'd go see it lol.
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01-03-2011, 20:53
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01-03-2011, 23:20
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Re: The Detroit RoboCop Statue
Detroit's greatest hero deserves his own thread with text & video links rather than some one-line mention!  
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