RoboCop Figures

RoboCop arrived in 1987 as Paul Verhoeven's first American film, set in a near-future Detroit. Police officer Alex Murphy, played by Peter Weller, is murdered by a gang and rebuilt by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as a cyborg law enforcer. The film mixed brutal action with sharp satire, and its armoured hero and the clanking ED-209 became two of the most recognisable designs in 1980s science fiction. Weller returned for RoboCop 2 in 1990, and Robert John Burke took the role for RoboCop 3 in 1993.

In sixth scale, the franchise belongs almost entirely to [Hot Toys](/manufacturer/hot-toys). Its earlier figures covered [RoboCop](/character/robocop) himself, a gun-arm version, the flight pack from RoboCop 3, and a towering [ED-209](/character/ed-209) in clean and battle-damaged versions. In 2014 Hot Toys moved Murphy into its Movie Masterpiece Diecast series, with die-cast parts in the armour, then added a version seated in the mechanical chair from the Metro West maintenance room and battle-damaged editions with an unmasked Alex Murphy head.

Hot Toys has since gone back to RoboCop 2 for [Cain](/character/cain), the drug lord turned RoboCain, giving Murphy his opposite number on the shelf. [Present Toys](/manufacturer/present-toys) has also made a RoboCop of its own.

Collectors here care about the finish. The armour needs the right metallic sheen, the visor the right line, and the weight of a die-cast figure is part of the appeal. ED-209 is a centrepiece purchase, large enough to anchor a display, and many collectors build the shelf as a set: Murphy, the machine that failed before him, and the machine built to replace him. The [Terminator](/franchise/terminator) shelf is the natural neighbour.