Thursday, July 19, 2012

"They'll fix you...they fix everything."

Ah, OCP, how we've missed you! Fans of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 Robocop will lovingly remember Omni Consumer Products, the uber company behind ED-209, whose research into a new generation of "Enforcement Droid" gave us Murphy 2.0, aka Robocop. As a malevolent corporate villain entity, OCP was the greatest - and ED-209 was the mother of all berserk robots.

As next year's Robo-reboot gears up, we're being treated to an early viral corporate video from the Prometheus marketing playbook - it's nice to see that both OCP and ED-209 will at least be back in the mix, duking it out with The Killing's Joel Kinnaman as Murphy.


Here's the awesome Kenner ED-209 from some man-child's basement collection...


Color me super skeptical that anyone can surpass Verhoeven's mayhem - and no one will ever top Kurtwood Smith's Clarence Boddicker, the baddest villain of all time!


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