Detroit Finally Got Its RoboCop Statue

Detroit Finally Got Its RoboCop Statue

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 respond…

RoboCop statue finally installed in Detroit

The future of Detroit's presented by 1987's Robocop was hardly inspiring: a blighted landscape where cops and robbers alike are pawns of the giant corporation redeveloping it. But after 38 years its satire of capitalism, consumerism and AI is sharper than ever, and after 15 years a warehoused statue of the character has finally been installed there. — Read the rest The post RoboCop statue finally installed in Detroit appeared first on Boing Boin…

The Long-Awaited 10' Tall Bronze RoboCop Statue Is Finally Installed at the Eastern Market in Detroit

The long-awaited RoboCop statue by The Imagination Station and Omni Consumer Products was finally installed outside of 3434 Russell Street at the historic Eastern Market in Detroit on December 3, 2025. Eastern Market is famous for its food and farmers market as well as its abundant public art. If you’re standing there right now, reading this on your phone after scanning the QR code on the statue’s base, welcome. If you’re not, we invite you to …