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Update: Thomas Luebke, Secretary of the Commission of Fine Arts, which runs the Old Georgetown Board, tells DCist the Sprinkles has not yet applied for a permit to install their cupcake ATM. According to Luebke, “because it is a change to the building, they should be applying for a permit through DCRA,” which would then go to the Old Georgetown Board for approval.

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Nearly two years ago, pioneering cupcake chain Sprinkles announced they were bringing about the End Times to D.C. in the form of a brightly colored ATM-like machine that dispenses cupcakes. Surely a doomsday device if I ever saw one.

That was two summers ago and we still don’t have a cupcake ATM in our fair city. Some began to wonder if we’re ever going to get one.

Well, one is coming this fall. Maybe.

Last week, the Washington Business Journal reignited the hype for a 24-hour automated cupcake dispensary when they reported that it’s coming soon, but didn’t say when. A spokesperson with Sprinkles tells DCist that the cupcake ATM is going to be installed in the fall, but didn’t specify specifically when.

(As the Georgetown Metropolitan pointed out in 2012, the ATM will need approval from the Old Georgetown Board. We’re waiting to hear back if that’s happened.)

The cupcake ATM will be “hot pink” and installed outside of its Georgetown store at 3015 M Street NW, the company says. The hot pink machine of sugary doom will hold up to 760 individually packaged cupcakes and can dispense “as many as four cupcakes at a time using robotic arms,” WBJ reports.

Watch the cupcake ATM in action and prepare thyselves: