RoboCop statute in Eastern Market (Deadline Detroit photo)

After about 15 years in the making — from a tweet to planning, from execution to installation — the RoboCop statue, modeled after the movie RoboCop, has found a home at 3434 Russell St. in Detroit's Eastern Market.

The 11-foot-tall, 3,500-pound bronze statue is already drawing plenty of attention after being installed on Wednesday. On a cold Thursday afternoon, people were snapping photos in front of it and taking selfies.

The RoboCop science fiction movie premiered in 1987 and featured Detroit as a crime-infested city. Actor Peter Weller played cop Alex Murphy, who was murdered and returned as a cyborg law enforcer to fight crime, thanks to the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products.

As Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin

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