We're not a ten-year-old boy, so we've never been plagued by nightmares about Michael Jackson, but that might change if Jacko gets a permanent gig in Vegas and builds that 50-foot laser-beam-shooting robot he's always wanted.
According to The New York Daily News:
Even Elvis didn't try this in Vegas. Michael Jackson has been reviewing plans for a 50-foot robotic replica of himself should he launch a show there."It would be in the desert sands," said Mike Luckman of Luckman Van Pier, consultants to large entertainment companies. "Laser beams would shoot out of it so it would be the first thing people flying would see. Neon is wonderful, but it's old school." Luckman's partner, Andre Van Pier, who designed the futuristic spacesuits worn recently by Bono and U2 at a benefit concert in New Orleans, designed the robot. He has also sketched out a stage set of a giant audience-interactive video game with human cyborgs controlled by the audience. Said Luckman: "Michael's looked at the sketches and likes them."
For a man who spent the better part of a decade exclusively dating a chimp in a miniature tuxedo, this seems perfectly normal. We can only hope that other celebrities follow suit until the entire desert surrounding Vegas is filled with 50-foot robot celebrities. We can't wait for the Great Celebrity Robot Wars, when, after ten years of hearing Robot Celine Dion belt out that damn Titanic song twenty-four hours a day, Robot Keifer Sutherland, on a serious tequila binge, jumps atop her and starts throwing punches while Robot Jacko stands by whining, "C'mon guys . . . stop it!" and Robot Simon Cowell, Robot Paula Abdul, and Robot Randy Jackson critique Keifer's form, with Randy throwing in an "It was just a'ight for me" at the close of the fight.
