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The Inside Story Of Detroit's RoboCop Statue

Detroit has a RoboCop statue. I watched it go in myself on Wednesday. It's a real thing.

An amazingly detailed, 10-foot tall, 2.5 ton bronze behemoth will be greeting future generations coming to Eastern Market.

For more of the story, I sat down with three of the key people who refused to let this long-running project die:

Filmmaker and original organizer Brandon Walley

Producer and Free Age co-owner Jim Toscano

Omni Consumer Products' "defictionalizer-in-chief" Pete Hottelet

Together, we unpack how a jokey tweet comparing Detroit to Philadelphia's Rocky statue turned into a nearly decade and…

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