RoboCop in his "New Detroit" proposal, which was planned to turn Detroit back into a prosperous city again. When Bing said there was no such plan, and word of this reached the Internet, several fundraising events raised enough money for the statue, which would be built at the Imagination Station. There were plans to unveil the RoboCop statue in spring of 2014. On May 2, 2018, Imagination Station announced an agreement with the Michigan Science Center to serve as the home of the permanent installation of the RoboCop statue. Following MGM's outright acquisition of the defunct Orion Pictures film and television
RoboCop reflected on how the film's script is starting to play into reality: "We are now living in the world that I was proposing in "RoboCop" … how big corporations will 'take care of us' and … how they won't." Two of the primary themes explored by "RoboCop" are the media and human nature. On the Criterion Edition DVD commentary track, executive producer Jon Davison and writer Edward Neumeier both relate the film to the decay of American industry from the 1970s through the early 1980s, with the abandoned "Rust Belt style" factories that RoboCop and Clarence Boddicker's gang use as