Omg Capitol Hill, Seattle’s mystery soda machine is gone ⁉ pic.twitter.com/nGYV1MPmRj

Breaking news from just off Broadway: The Capitol Hill mystery soda machine is gone.

We’re checking in with area businesses including the Broadway Locksmith to see if they can shed any light on the apparent removal of the pop machine that has garnered global pop culture attention for its mysterious provenance.

Readers started checking in with CHS on the removal starting Saturday morning but the machine appears to have disappeared Friday night.

If you know what happened and what’s next for the machine’s now bare patch of E John dirt, help us clear up the mystery.

UPDATE 5:32 PM: Whatever happened to it, the machine knew it was coming:

UPDATE 7/2/2018 9:31 AM: With the mystery pop machine’s disappearance, other enchanted dispensing devices are moving to take advantage of the absence to establish their own magical holds over Capitol Hill’s population:

I love my Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill – eclectic, full of character and interesting people. This is what I found near my front stoop tonight. Always unexpected. pic.twitter.com/sfTUDQbivD — AlexisHarrison (@AlexisPHarrison) July 2, 2018