February 26, 2021
DETROIT (AP) The largest fictional keeper of law and order in Detroit may not stand watch at one Motor City museum as planned.
The Michigan Science Center announced recently that it no longer plans to be home to an 11-foot-tall bronze RoboCop statue,
The Detroit News reported.
Due to “unprecedented pressures” from the coronavirus pandemic, “resources must now be entirely focussed on our core mission of serving Michigan’s students and families”, the centre said in a statement.
The 1987 film
RoboCop was set but not filmed in a futuristic and crime-ridden Detroit. The title character, a cyborg police officer, was played by actor Peter Weller.
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Jay Jurma Venus Bronze Works Giorgio Gikas, center, puts the finishing touches on Detroit s long-awaited RoboCop statue, with help from assistant Nadine Chronopoulos. Now the statue just needs a home. In the spring of 2011, Brandon Walley and Jerry Paffendorf were hard at work in Corktown. Starting with two long-vacant houses near Michigan Central Station, their group, Imagination Station, had dedicated itself to commissioning local public art projects. They d already helped make a few attention-getting pieces a reality, such as the Hygienic Dress League sign that once graced on the Roosevelt Hotel with solar-powered neon seagulls, or Monumental Kitty, Jerome Feretti s brick-and-mortar sculpture near the old Tiger Stadium site.
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