{"id":5524,"date":"2022-05-14T02:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T00:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/fortnite-adds-robocop-and-ed-209-to-the-battle-royale-games-item-shop\/"},"modified":"2022-05-14T02:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T00:05:22","slug":"fortnite-adds-robocop-and-ed-209-to-the-battle-royale-games-item-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/fortnite-adds-robocop-and-ed-209-to-the-battle-royale-games-item-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite adds RoboCop and ED-209 to the battle royale game’s item shop"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fortnite adds RoboCop and ED-209 to the battle royale game’s item shop<\/div>\n
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RoboCop, the part-man, part-machine supercop protagonist of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 ultraviolent satire of Reagan era-corporate greed, has come to Fortnite<\/em>. RoboCop’s arrival in the battle royale game also introduces another familiar element of the original film: the total degradation and humiliation of ED-209. <\/p>\n

That’s because you can now ride on the back of a diminutive ED-209, thanks to a new emote in Fortnite<\/em>. Players can also use ED-209’s severed leg as an in-game pickax. That’s called the LEG-209, which can also be equipped as a Back Bling. <\/p>\n

RoboCop, the Christlike figure who once meted out justice by shooting a criminal in the dick but has since been softened to little more than a cool action figure, is now available as an outfit from the Fortnite Item Shop. Players can also get a bundle with the LEG-209, with which they can beat fellow players over the head to drive home themes of the dangers of corporate privatization of public services, or something. <\/p>\n

Beyond Fortnite<\/em>, RoboCop is set to return in his own video game, RoboCop: Rogue City<\/em>, sometime in 2023. The creators and original writers of RoboCop<\/em>, Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, are trying to make a new film, RoboCop Returns<\/em>, which has been pitched as a direct sequel to the first film and ignores the sequels’ continuity. District 9<\/em> and Chappie<\/em> director Neill Blomkamp was once attached to RoboCop Returns<\/em>, but the project has since been handed to a new director, Abe Forsythe. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fortnite adds RoboCop and ED-209 to the battle royale game’s item shop RoboCop, the part-man, part-machine supercop protagonist of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 ultraviolent satire of Reagan era-corporate greed, has come to Fortnite. RoboCop’s arrival in the battle royale game also introduces another familiar element of the original film: the total degradation and humiliation of ED-209. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}