The
Detroit News
reports on a campaign to create a statue in Detroit of RoboCop, the
iconic character from the 1987 film starring Peter Weller as a half-man,
half-robot officer. A Tweet in February 2011 sent to Detroit Mayor Dave
Bing spawned an online fundraising campaign that raised $50,000 in six
days. Now, a year later, Hollywood statue designer Fred Barton's
life-sized RoboCop model is being scanned at a Canadian studio so it can
be cast in bronze and delivered to its new home.
I wonder what other fictional book/movie/TV characters we can lobby
for life-sized statues? Any favorites you'd like to see cast in bronze
or stone for posterity? I guess here in D.C., it would have to be a
statue of Leroy Jethro Gibbs from NCIS (played by Mark Harmon). Who would people choose for your area?
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