Michael Jackson planned 'robot duplicate' of himself

I know who the scientists were....

....Please welcome Stations most bodacious creation(s)

Scans

"...scans of the deceased globo-celeb's body were made..."

Why did they wait until he was dead before making the scans? Or did you mean "now-deceased"? Or is the robot gonna look like he did in the Thriller video?

That "Read More" section at the bottom of the page...

...reads "READ MORE: Robot Michael Jackson Evil Twin Duplicate 3d" and would make a hell of an elevator pitch for a movie. Better that that Monopoly concept.

But who to play the lead role?

Oh, and @Lottie: Most triumphant! *air guitar*

@ tiggertaebo

'Does anyone else expect a conspiracy theory to start now implying that he's not dead and they buried a robotic duplicate?'

I hadn't, but I think this is the perfect opportunity to start one.

And it's also a good time for him to start appearing in the Reg's unrivalled Playmobil CCTV footage - possibly replacing Optimus Prime during Transformers religious holidays.

Common sense

High resolution images, you mean like the ones that they use to make statues and wax works?

both of which would be a much more credible use than a robot. I'll believe that the images were intended for a robot when I see plans for a robot. Until then my money is that they were for a plain ordinary model. Or maybe some kind of automated fairground attraction like they have in Disney land. But not an actual robot.

He's baa-a-a-a-a-ack...!

...so TruBones claims to have motion capture footage of Jackson and someone else has a full-body scan made before he fell completely apart...? Does this mean that we'll be seeing him in new music videos and movies?

Tromplography™ has arrived!

(...And a tip of the hat to Howard Chaykin for inventing that word in the '80s to describe the process of replacing an actor with a computer-generated duplicate!)

Hmm

Anyone ever see the stuff he was putting up for auction before he died? This is downright normal compared to most of that.

@Scans

"Or is the robot gonna look like he did in the Thriller video?"

Isn't that the one where he invented cats-eyes?

BTW, I may be the only person in Indiana who is happy that Michael Jackson is from our state. He sort of balances out Axl Rose, in a way.

But most importantly ...

... will it run on Linux?

Correct me if I'm wrong

...after all, I am not a Lawyer, nor a resident of the USofA, so...

...if MJ had the scans done, I assumed he paid for them. Which would make them part of the Estate of the deceased. Which would make the company's attempt at selling them off illegal.

Yes?

It's obvious...

He watched Tron, but wanted to bypass the ugly, cut-up-by-a-laser stage.

This is all we need, an electronic version of Jacko wandering through our networks playing havoc with (Oow!) our word processing (cha-cha.) and nicking the mouse.

Let's hope that when he enters the arena, that those are light discs he is throwing. Did he ever have a licence to ride a light-bike outside Neverland?

@Neoc, given the state of his finances, whos to say he actually paid for them?

1 mill

Bah forget it !!

there are enough photos of him to easily map out a 3d model for much less than 1 mill

May I be the first...

...to welcome our 50-ft tall moon-walking overlord?

There's only one thing to do!

Call Robert Smith!

Robert Smith... Robert Smith...

http://www.tv.com/south-park/mecha-streisand/episode/2428/summary.html