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Here's your chance to win the coolest Tyler Stout poster ever printed! Check out AICN's and MondoTee's RoboCop poster contest!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Being a longtime regular of the Alamo Drafthouse I was there when Mondo Tees began and have seen their great design work spread the Drafthouse name… Like their Badass Cinema t-shirt featuring the visage of Pam Grier that has rested between many a geeky pair of man-boobs and girl-boobs alike.
Then they began doing poster tie-ins, using a wide variety of fantastic artists. The more popular of these is one Tyler Stout. I own a few of his prints, but what I’m about to give away takes the cake.
Not only is it some of his best movie art, but it’s one of his most limited and unique pieces. Take a look:
Measuring 24x36 inches and printed on actual sheet metal this poster comes with a heavy price tag. Stout sold out of his batch on his personal page at $300 a pop. The Mondo Site (click here) has a few left at the same price with a very strict 1 per person limit. I don’t have the exact number, but the printing was very small due to the costs involved. Each poster is signed (well, etched) and numbered by Stout.
Justin Ishmael at Mondo has very graciously given us one of these 10 pound hunks of badass metal to give away to one of our readers, so it’s contest time.
And before the smart-asses come out to remind me of the Star Wars contest, I’ve decided to make this one a purely visual contest, not a written word contest.
ROBOCOP is a favorite of mine… In fact, I met Paul Verhoeven at one of my first Comic-Cons… he was there promoting Hollow Man and I bought a RoboCop one-sheet for him to sign. It’s been on my wall ever since. As cool as that is, count me extremely envious of the lucky winner of this contest.
Thinking back on the film, one of my favorite aspects is the black satire, especially in the commercials. Check out this youtube clip that features many of the ads from the first two films (my favorites are Nuke ‘Em, 6000 SUX and the overly aggressive car defense system):
So what I want from you is a print ad, something you’d find in a magazine in the RoboCop universe, perhaps taken out by OCP itself. The ad must be dark and on the fucked up side. Most importantly, it has to be funny. You can photoshop it, collage it, draw it, paint it, make it out of metal like Mr. Stout and Mondo did, whatever. But it has to advertise something and be darkly satirical. With the economic climate the way it is right now I’m sure there are plenty of things to satirize in a way that is funny, sad and not too far from the truth.
The contest is open to anybody in the world, so international readers here’s your shot.
What I need from you is an email sent to this address with the subject line I’D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR! This email must contain your name, non-PO Box shipping address and your entry, in JPG format. Please limit the file size to one meg or less. Any bigger and I risk some bouncebacks and lost entries. If you want me to see a bigger file, you need to host it and send a link along with the smaller JPG.
This contest is open between now and 11:59pm CST Thursday, May 21st. As usual, my decision will be final and hopefully it’ll be much more timely than my last couple.
Good luck! I leave you with a couple of links for your perusal:
Mondo Tees
Tyler Stout’s personal website
-Quint
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If that thing doesn't have Officer Lewis on there... total piece of crap.
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good contest, I may just enter this, I'm moving into a new place and plan on doing the living room in a cinema motif and that would look badass on my wall, now to get the thinking cap on
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Actually that's one well done piece of work. To quote Nicholson's Joker: I don't know if it's art, but I like it.
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What a bummer that I don't have 300 buckazoids to buy me one.
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ITS TRUE
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I'm not clever enough for this.
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The Magnavolt car defense and sunscreen ads are from ROBOCOP 2 i'm guessing? (haven't seen that one again since it came out).
I love the Verhoeven fake ads. The fact that they also feature in STARSHIP TROOPERS and TOTAL RECALL makes the three movies seem somehow connected - a Verhoeven sci-fi trilogy in spirit if not in name!
I don't think Mrs Cobra would let me hang that poster on the wall of my dojo, but hope it goes to a good home. It's pretty cool. -
But I think I might give this a shot anyway.
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I love ROBOCOP. I live in terror of what Darren "Suck Itself" Arrogantovsky is going to do with the maligned remake. VERHOVEN >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Arrogantovsky.
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I've got nowhere I could possibly put that poster right now, but I want it anyway. Nice contest by the way, Quint.
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That is fucking awesome
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Does it have hooks?
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Caruso you've got to enter "Too Many Vaders" as a spoof tv show ad. It's genius.
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I hope I find the time to do it (and not go to jail before :P)
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Just...wow.
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I'd settle for a hi-res .jpg thanks.
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... that if this thing falls off your wall and you're sitting underneath it, it could slice off your head!
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Your prime directive is... to buy some really strong fucking screws.
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as does the whole movie. Just compare them to the first 3. Those are played and cut like real ads.The "Car security" and "sunblocker" ads are just lame SNL-type jokes, much too long and - worse - too unfunny.
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"Pakistan is threatening my border!" Something like that.
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Why no Asian gang member?
What is Bob Morton looking at? Is he noticing Dick Jones is taking a shit behind him after he bad mouths him? -
Nearly as much as I'd like a 6000SUX (with really shitty gas mileage!) and a Cobra Assault Rifle state-of-the-art bang-bang
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BTW in that scene i don't know if their doubles or what but they're really fucking close to shop fronts exploding.
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Bitches leave.
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And being the massively obsessed Robocop fan that I am, I want that poster very, very badly.
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Is this contest open to international residents? ie. Canadians?
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Every time someone comes over to look at it, their first question would be, "Where's Nancy Allen?" :facepalm:
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"The contest is open to anybody in the world, so international readers here’s your shot. "
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...cause' I'm all over this contest.
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Someone help me here
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...your clients a scumbag and scumbags wait until Monday to see the judge!"
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new meme...try it
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Comply to seconds 20...
nah, it'll never catch on. You just end up sounding like fucking yoda. -
Yeah, this sucks.
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It was the real actors ,in that blowing up the shop scene.It all went a bit wrong.No one was expecting a blast that big.
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Wow, I'm an idiot. Thanks!
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...or I'd be all over this. I'm looking forward to seeing the best entries.
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But I'm more of a Starship Troopers kind of guy.
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Anything?
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I could make my own damn metal poster.
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with the wrong guy - excellent contest idea. will we be able to see the entries somewhere?
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I'm not taking up the slack for Quint's lazy ass on this one. You'll just have to wait till sometime in 2010 to get your prize.
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I don't know that I would have the time for this contest...good Lord. Thanks again wifey for the best preseant ever!!!!!!!
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Cause you sure as fuck wont see this contest end in your lifetime.
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I thought it had to be something like that.
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I thought the article title was referring to Requiem for a Robocop a.k.a. UnnecessaryRebootCop. Peter Weller forever!
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May 14, 2009 10:26:50 AM CDT
That's cool as all hell. Thanks for opening up the contest
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to people outside the US.
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I also feel the need to also ask: Where's Officer Lewis? I suppose this is Robocop and the various levels of scum from the film. Is there a sister piece where Robocop is all shiny and new and is backed by Anne, the Sergeant, the old man and his wife and son? (But put the ED-209s on that one too, they were just too cool for skool.)
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Come on already, dude...Can we have a decision here?
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Are you serious? It's still only 2009.
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