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The RoboCop Statue arrives in Detroit

Sparked by a viral 2011 tweet comparing Detroit’s need for a RoboCop statue to Philadelphia’s Rocky statue, the project grew through massive community collaboration.

Detroit hat endlich seine RoboCop-Statue und „Daily Detroit“ hat einige Fotos und Videos der detailgetreuen, 3,5 Meter hohen und 2,5 Tonnen schweren Nachbildung des ikonischen Metall-Sheriff der Stadt. Und wer sich nicht mehr an (nicht mehr verfügbare) virale Tweets oder Kickstarter-Kampagnen von vor anderthalb Jahrzehnten erinnern kann, dem hilft Wikipedia weiter:

The RoboCop statue is a bronze statue of RoboCop, a fictional cybernetically enhanced Detroit Police Department officer from the 1987 film RoboCop. The idea for the statue originated with a 2011 exchange between Detroit mayor Dave Bing and a pseudonymous user on Twitter. In response to the suggestion that Detroit have a statue of RoboCop to rival Philadelphia’s statue of Rocky, Bing replied that there were no plans to erect such a statue in the city. The exchange went viral and a subsequent Kickstarter campaign raised $67,436 to fund the construction of the statue.

Bekanntlich ist Popkultur immer dann am besten, wenn sie nicht verkauft, sondern verankert wird. 🥁 (via Waxy)

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FIRST LOOK: The RoboCop Statue Arrives In Detroit

In Eastern Market, there's a statue happening