Detroit finally has a RoboCop statue

Detroit Metro Times ^ | December 3, 2025 | Lee DeVito

[Ciaphas Cain]

Nearly 15 years later, Detroit finally has its statue of RoboCop.

The bronze statue depicting the eponymous cybernetic star of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 set-in-Detroit sci-fi satire was installed in Eastern Market on Wednesday, nearly 15 years after someone proposed it in a viral social media post.

Back in 2011, someone with the Twitter account @MT (no, not us) tweeted at then-Mayor Dave Bing that Detroit should have a statue of the part-man, part-machine cop because “Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky & RoboCop would kick Rocky’s butt.”

“He’s a GREAT ambassador for Detroit,” the tweet continued.

The idea got even more attention after Bing’s office responded to it. “There are not any plans to erect a statue to Robocop,” Bing tweeted at the time. “Thank you for the suggestion.”

[Fledermaus]

The strangest part of that movie.

[Fledermaus]

ROFL

[T.B. Yoits]

Detroit? Statues?

[Ciaphas Cain]

According to Verhoeven and the other production crew, that character’s name is Bixby Snyder, star of It’s Not My Problem. Apparently the only sitcom in the RoboCop universe.

[KingLudd]

I remember seeing it when it came out. There was a lot of killing in the movie.

[Fledermaus]

That name fits

[dfwgator]

There was a lot of killing in the movie.

Hot Shots Part Deux had more!

[fella]

Wasn’t it filmed in Dallas?

[gibsonguy]

Wow what a great reference. I don’t know how many of us will get that one.

[T.B. Yoits]

Red Forman left his wife Kitty and their two children, Laurie and Eric, behind in Point Place, Wisconsin before turning to a life of crime in Detroit.

[silent majority rising]

Interesting because it was actually filmed in Dallas, TX. I was in the building they were filming several scenes.

[Getready]

A statue of ED-209 would be more appropriate for Detroyette.

[fwdude]

It was a very cartoonish movie, although the theme questioning the boundary between human and machine was interesting.

[BipolarBob]

Death race 2000?

[Ciaphas Cain]

Paul Verhoeven wanted it to be as violent as they could get away with. He thought it made the movie funnier.

[rfp1234]

This guy deserves a statue too.

[equaviator]

When Robocop addresses street criminals, does he call them “Bro”?

[dfwgator]

Or Bob Probert.

[rfp1234]

Yup. True enforcer.

[dfwgator]

And certainly Gordie Howe.