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 from the film by following one of the earlier drafts of the screenplay. It expanded on Murphy's struggle with being part man and part machine, and his memories. It also included more "humanized" dialogue from RoboCop, as opposed to the minimal, cold dialogue heard in the film. The success of the movie spawned a large franchise, including merchandise, two sequels, , a remake, two animated TV series, a television , video games, and a number of comic book adaptations/crossovers. In January 2018, it was announced that original "RoboCop" writer Ed Neumeier was writing a direct sequel to the 1987 film