Well, yet another classic Eighties movie has been dusted off, pumped up and remade. This time round its ROBOCOP. I saw the new film tonight at the Pictures.
New Robocop is a slick modern day western with our metal hero blasting his way through a million bad guys to get to the truth. Where the old Verhouven original is different is the amount of gore it contained. The new flick is a 12A in the UK and despite a substantial body count, the extreme blood and guts have gone.
Watching Robocop I couldn't help thinking that he looks like a beefed-up silver C3P0! But just what is Robocop? A robot? an android? a cyborg? a bionic man? What do you think readers?
It always amazed me how many toys were released around the original film. It was the same with Terminator. Surely those two films were too violent for kids back then? Still, they produced a slew of playthings, games and jigsaws and when I used to stand at toy fairs I sold quite a few, especially the 12 inch plastic figures and the boxed vehicles like this Robocop Tactical Field Ambulance.
Did you have any toys from Robocop, Terminator or Judge Dread readers?
Ive got a neat cap firing Ed-209!
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