Wow… Wow… WOW! If you weren’t aware, last week someone suggested to the Mayor and the city of Detroit that they should build a statue of Robocop in their fair city. Well, after a public rejection by the mayor, Robocop fans and geeks united behind a campaign to raise $50,000 to have a metal statue made of Robocop. Well, due to a general donation by Pete Hottelet of Omni Consumer Products and over 1,700 people donating, the goal has been reached! On top of that, The Imagination Station has offered space to build the proposed seven foot statue. Sculptor, Casey V. Westbrook will be taking the lead in building the statue. A small scale model will be made and will be the scanned in 3D to create a large mold that will be used to construct the statue in iron. Whats really the kicker is the idea to build the Robocop statue was suggested via Twitter by someone that hasn’t even been to Detroit. Whats pretty amazing as well is that while charity organization have a difficult time raising money to fund their charity work, $50,000 can be raised in less than a week to build a Robocop statue. I guess it all has to do with what you really care about. Feeding the homeless or build a statue of Murphy. /shrug

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