Kickstarter's awesome successes

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• Detroit needs, and will get, a life-size Robocop statue:
  After Detroit's Mayor Dave Bing tweeted that, despite requests, there were no plans to erect a Robocop statue in the city, à la Philly's Rocky monument, online denizens stepped in. Nonprofit community artist group Imagination Station raised $67,436 (well above its $50,000 goal). 3-D images have been made of the proposed statue.
  
  
• The world's largest jockstrap:
  Artist Michael Barrett, a former Marine, athlete and cancer survivor, raised just above his Kickstarter goal of $850 to create the world's largest jockstrap (now a Guiness World Record recognized event). And why might an artist be compelled to make protective groin wear for giants? Barrett explained: "Knowing the extremes -- the biggest, the smallest, the fastest, the most and the least -- offers a way of comprehending and digesting an increasingly complex world overloaded with information."
  
  
• Geography brought to you via the Zombie Apocalypse:
  Seattle-based public educator David Hunter raised $11,886 (well above his $5,000 goal) to create a middle school geography curriculum, with textbooks and interactive elements, all through the lens of a zombie apocalypse. "Students will be able to learn real world geographic concepts by learning and applying their knowledge to survive in a world overrun by zombies ... Imagine being in a classroom where instead of reading about maps, you’re designing them to show the spread of a zombie outbreak," explained Hunter in his winning pitch.
  
  
• Sunken Lady Liberty:
  Kickstarter funding permitted visitors to New York's Governors Island to act out that scene from "Planet of the Apes." Artist Zaq Landsberg raised $2,201 to construct an exact replica of the face of the Statue of Liberty, which he positions to look as if it were sinking into the ground. The sculpture, "Face of Liberty," was displayed on the Island opposite liberty last summer.
  
  
• Coat-assisted bear hug:
  Baffoonery Factory LLC designed the Griz Coat, a coat that looks like a grizzly bear. "Wear it proudly and remember: It's not a costume. It's a lifestyle," the Kickstarter pitch noted. The New York twins behind the project only asked for $2,000 but raised a whopping $29,015 to make the coats, the first of which have already sold out (via Grizcoat.com).
  
  
• Banana piano:
  Makey Makey is an ingenious invention that allows you to turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the Internet. So you can load up a piano program and turn bananas into the keys, should that be your wont. Recognizing the project's cleverness, Kickstarter users donated $568,106 to California designer Jay Silver, who had only asked for $25,000.
  
  
• Giant snake of impending doom:
  What better to provoke a climate change debate than a 50-foot electromechanical snake? So went the reasoning behind the Titanoba project, which successfully raised over $10,000 to build a mechanical snake named after an ancient serpent born in a sweltering earth for -- you guessed it -- Burning Man.
  
  
• Knitted facial hair:
  5 O'clock Shadow believes beards should not be the preserve of the naturally hirsute. The company raised just above its $3,000 goal to produce a line of wool beards
  
  

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