Wisconsin mayor wants giant Robocop statue in his city
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Friday, March 12, 2021
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) - A central Wisconsin city is making a play for a giant Robocop statue after a Detroit museum rejected it.
The mayor of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, wants to place the 11-foot statue in front of the city’s police station or in a park to honor actor Peter Weller, a Stevens Point native who portrayed the titular cyborg in 1987′s “Robocop.” The movie spawned two sequels and a 2014 reboot movie.
The original movie was set in a crime-ridden Detroit. Fans from that city started crowdfunding an effort to build a Robocop statue in 2012, raising nearly $70,000 from supporters around the world.