KickTraq

The crowdfunded, 10-foot-tall RoboCop statue has finally found a permanent resting spot after the campaign started back in 2011. (Read More)

Kickstarter is a global crowdfunding platform based in the United States for a wide variety of projects, from technological marvels to unusual creations. (Read More)

Greetings RoboBackers! How do you feel about the new flick, have you seen it, will you? We all know it’s a Robo of a different color, but we’re hopeful it will be worthwhile. If it’s half as epic as the original, I’d consider it a win! ... (Read More)

Gotham has Batman, New York City has Spider-Man, and Detroit has RoboCop. A 10-foot tall bronze statue of cyborg crime fighter Alex Murphy is coming to Detroit next summer thanks to a bunch of devoted fans and a Kickstarter fundraising campaign. (Read More)

RoboBackers,  We have reached another critical save point! The 10-foot-tall foam RoboForm is now at Venus Bronze Works in Detroit. He looks amazing!  Everyone available rushed to meet him as soon as they could, and our friends shot a little video... (Read More)

Recently, Kickstarter funded a Veronica Mars movie and a sequel to the beloved cult video game Planescape: Torment with record-breaking success. It's become clear that we can directly influence the things that get created for our entertainment -- if there's a cool movie or game or album that we'd like to see, we now have the power to give people money to make those things exist, rather than just wait for some big production company to foot the bill and bitch about the end result on the Internet. (Read More)

The 10-foot-tall Robocop statue is making progress for the 2014 unveiling. The city of Detroit could be getting its very own statue of 'Robocop'.Initially the project debuted on Kickstarter.com in 2011. The designers aimed for a $50,000 goal and actually ended up surpassing that amount. Although the statue is not done yet, Fred Barton is the name behind the elaborate sculpting. Across The Board Creations is the company responsible for the digital enlarging and fabrication. (Read More)

There's really nothing to say. Just take a look at RoboCop in his 10-foot-tall pixel-atom-perfect glory. So far he's passed from you, the backers, to Fred Barton's expert custom sculpting, to Across The Board Creation's 3D scanning, digital... (Read More)

Another sneak peek... Don't worry, he's been in this situation before and bounced back (clip from RoboCop 2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hG2OFFwNi8  (Read More)

Happy New Year! Hot off the presses in 2013: Kevin Galloway from Across The Board Creations just shared these photos of the RoboCop pieces rolling off the assembly line. He says it's among the most highly detailed work he's ever done. Note that in... (Read More)

News! We have received the following 2 images of the completed 3D RoboCop body scan from Across The Board Creations, with assurance that the super-detailed foam parts will soon be here in Detroit for casting. Here's hoping that the next update can... (Read More)

Yes! Kevin at Across The Board Creations http://acrosstheboardcreations.com just sent the attached pic of the new 3D scans of Robo's hands and calves and throws us a double thumbs-up that all Robo parts have been shipped to his studio and his team is... (Read More)

Happy Tuesday, RoboBackers, Fred Barton just sent over these pics of the last of the missing Robo pieces, now completed -- hands and calf, check 'em out below!  They're on their way to http://acrosstheboardcreations.com to meet their brother and... (Read More)

Testing, testing, 1-2, 1-2. Hello RoboBackers. We just flew in from Delta City and boy are our arms tired. /crickets. eeee. /tugs on collar. Tough crowdsource... But seriously, folks, it's been a second since the last update. Apologies for that. The... (Read More)

Happy pre-spring, RoboBackers! The sun is shining here in Detroit and the RoboBears are re-awaking from cyborg-hibernation.Fred Barton's precision-detailed RoboCop form has been shipped in many pieces to the http://acrosstheboardcreations.com 3D... (Read More)