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Robocop statue would be awesome. Imagine this posture, looking pretty badass. No bad guy would want to go near it. And if it's privately donated I don't see a problem with it, kinda.
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On February 23 2011 20:17 eu.exodus wrote:Show nested quote +On February 23 2011 19:46 Jswizzy wrote:
You know a statue of Robocop seems stupid at first but it could help with tourism and that would help the local economy. this could just be me but if i ever had to travel to the USA, with tourist attractions like uhm, i dunno Washington DC, NYC, the grand canyon, Las Vegas etc. why would any foreigner wanting to visit America spend their hard earned money to go to a stereotypically shitty part of the country (you can thank eminem and friends later) to go see a statue of robocop? Maybe if the dude was real and died heroically while fighting osama bin laden and the green goblin i would understand. Robocop? I cant get over how funny this is
Have you ever heard of Rocky? And Philadelphia? They have a Rocky statue beside the "Rocky stairs" and even footprints where Rocky stood at the top. Thats a preeeetty popular place.
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This friggin owns so much
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Not a lot of money
Cool idea
I support it! The arguement "It could have been used for something better" could be used on a million things and is just another form of the slippery slope arguement. What's done is done, enjoy how badass it is.
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Approved.
Your move, creep.
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There should be a statue of Snake Plisskin in New Year. now THAT would be cool
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When I think about statues in different cities they have some kind of meaning and/or remind you of the past. At first sight a statue of an action movie figure seems unnecessary. But on second sight it's a sad but true reflection of the present of a city like Detroit.
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This project will seem less "unreasonable" to most, once you realize that giving that fundraiser money to any arm of the government or public would be an even bigger colossal waste. We know that the public either pisses away the funds on sillier nonsense or it goes up some bureaucrat's nose. Anything that inspires people in a small, safe, and inoffensive way is worth more than pouring it into a failed venture like US public education.
You gotta admit this is also pretty cool
http://www.visitphilly.com/museums-attractions/philadelphia/the-rocky-statue-and-the-rocky-steps/
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I don't support it. Why do we keep idolizing mainstream movie culture?
Are we going to put a statue of Tom Cruise because of his iconic role in Top Gun?
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I support this only because it's so hilarious :D
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On February 21 2011 01:25 PassiveAce wrote:
But i still think the money would be better spent in the Detroit Public School system. What do you guys think?
who would protect the children?
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Expected to raise average class size to 60. Scary stuff.
Also, the idea that a statue of robocop would Attract tourists is a little over the top to me. I don't think anyone from another state or country is going to decide to go see detroit because of a new statue, but if people did, I could see how it would pay for itself. If any of you do come by, send me a pm and wel play some SC at my place 
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Maybe this is a good idea, now all I need to do is get California to build a 20 story statue of Arnold slaying the Predator.
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On February 24 2011 03:35 ckw wrote:
Maybe this is a good idea, now all I need to do is get California to build a 20 story statue of Arnold slaying the Predator.
Sticking a giant thumbs up in the bay and putting red lights in the water would be 100x better
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Good to know that Detroit still has people living in it, and that they have their priorities in the right place.
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On February 24 2011 03:40 Hawk wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2011 03:35 ckw wrote:
Maybe this is a good idea, now all I need to do is get California to build a 20 story statue of Arnold slaying the Predator. Sticking a giant thumbs up in the bay and putting red lights in the water would be 100x better
It's not fair, California has like 50 different things they could make funny statues of, and so does New York and Chicago.
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I've lived in the metro Detroit area my whole life, and the city isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be/how bad it was 10-15 years ago. People are willing to donate to something like this because it's just a one time donation that goes to something that can only have a positive effect on the city (I can't imagine people being angry about the Rocky statue or something like that). Things like raising $50k for DPS or any public system aren't sustainable since those donations that are needed are required on a yearly basis. If anything, this could improve the morale of some people, and everyone knows that we need that in the city wherever we can get it.
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Funny Idea, but notr realistic with Michigans economy :/
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i love the OCP connection lol.
its brilliant. i forsee Detroit being renamed to Delta City in the future, and ran by Omni Consumer Products.
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