{"id":9302,"date":"2015-09-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=9302"},"modified":"2015-09-12T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T22:01:55","slug":"iow-cop-delivers-monday-might","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=9302","title":{"rendered":"IOW: COP flexes Monday Might"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upstanding citizens of Champaign-Urbana<\/strong>! Here is a super-late but super-fun \u201cImage of the Week<\/strong>\u201d that will bring you Labor Day<\/strong> cheer and video-making inspiration! We should begin, speaking of \u201csuper late,\u201d by wishing well that portion of our C-U Blogfidential<\/strong><\/span> population who forced themselves to stay awake through overnight Thursday so they could participate in \u201cForce Friday,\u201d a shopping event orchestrated by Lucasfilm<\/strong>, Disney<\/strong>, licensors, and retailers<\/a><\/span> to make an instant mint off the nationwide debut of STAR WARS<\/strong> collectibles. Coincidentally, we slumbered peacefully through those very same wee hours at the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong> with visions of classic Eighties action figure commercials dancing in our heads. They somewhat resembled the mash-up madness of Kontraband<\/strong>\u2019s kick-ass toy line, \u201cRobot Cop<\/strong>,\u201d as seen in the spot embedded below. What, you don\u2019t<\/em> remember \u201cRobot Cop,\u201d fellow middle agers? We can thank Champaign illustrator Matt Wiley<\/strong>, a staff media artist at Taylor Studios<\/strong> in Rantoul<\/strong> and contributing poster and title designer for Pens to Lens<\/strong>, who invented this retro sales nugget on a whim.<\/a><\/span> \u201cStarring\u201d the T-800 from THE TERMINATOR<\/strong> and bounty hunter Bossk from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK<\/strong> who battle over real-world precious cargo \u2013 in this case, their young humans\u2019 SunnyD<\/strong>(elight<\/strong>) orange drink \u2013 ROBOT COP<\/strong> features hand acting by Taylor colleagues Jason Thorn<\/strong> and Jordan Bidner<\/strong>, voice work by P2L cohorts Matt Shivers, Justin Klett<\/strong>, and Breelyn Mehrtens<\/strong>, and Wiley performing his best \u201clazy a capella<\/em>\u201d Basil Poledouris<\/strong>. Just as entertaining is the ROBOT COP<\/strong> how-to video if that saved-to-VHS, Reagan<\/strong>-era aesthetic is your bag, and it also appears here for perusal and study. Pretty rad!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

p.s.<\/em> We sincerely beg Wiley to make one more toy faux<\/em>-mercial for the Eighties sci-fi epic that never was until about four months ago<\/a><\/span>, KUNG FURY<\/strong>, if for no other reason than to be gloriously more meta than meta. Besides, he may not be a robot but he is most definitely<\/em> a cop and he\u2019s damn good at his job. That\u2019s worth a little merchandising homage<\/em>, yes?<\/p>\n


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