Detroit’s long-promised RoboCop statue finally has a home in the city that it protects on screen. The 11-foot, 3,500-pound bronze statue now stands outside the Free Age film production company in Eastern Market, looking spot on in a way bronze statue replications of real-life figures often don’t, for some baffling reason.
It took 15 years to get that statue up, the AP reports. The idea was first proposed in 2010 when then-mayor Dave Bing responded to a tweet suggesting Detroit follow Philadelphia’s lead after putting up a statue of Rocky Balboa and adopt RoboCop as its own filmic mascot.
Bing politely said “no,” but the idea seemed to resonate with Detroiters. By 2012, more than 2,700 backers worldwide had raised over $67,000 on Kickstarter. Detroit sculptor Giorgio Gikas finished the statue in 2017, and then, with nowhere to put it, it vanished into storage…