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 1000 Movies Ever Made". AMC Filmsite.org and Film.com rated it as one of the best films of 1987. The film was on the ballot for two of the American Film Institute's "100 Series" lists. These included "100 Years…100 Thrills", a list of America's most heart-pounding films, and AFI's "Ten Top Ten", a list of the best 10 films in 10 "classic" American film genres. "RoboCop" was a candidate in the science fiction category. At its release, British director Ken Russell said that this was the best science fiction film since Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927). In a 2013 interview, Edward Neumeier