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To promote the upcoming season premiere of Arrested Development on May 26th, Netflix has launched a pop-up shop tour of Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand, which will serve up real frozen bananas and photo ops with cast members in various locations across Great Britain and the United States, starting with London (as seen in the picture) this week and a few more pit stops in New York and Los Angeles in the following week. Is there any money in it? Perhaps you should find out!

Hot on the heels of Kanye Wes Anderson, we give you another killer Tumblr mashup.

Press play and ignore your email for the next 10 minutes -- you owe it to yourself.

As our friends at Uproxx put it, your "eyes will be pissing tears in no time."

Don't miss the rest.

And now this -- JFK Jr. or Buster Bluth?

Scratch that -- no news. Just Buster in a peacoat.

OMFG.

[thanks, brian!]

Here's the latest on season 4, from a Vulture interview with show creator Mitch Hurwitz:

• "The episodes are an outgrowth of the design of what we hope will be the movie. They precede it. They function as an act one of a movie that we all want to do, but haven't 'sold' yet."
• "We would love this to be the first first of many visits." And -- he's open to the idea of doing a fifth and even a sixth season on Netflix!
• Confirmed guest stars: Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Judy Greer, Liza Minnelli, Mae Whitman, and Jeff Garlin.

For every other possible season 4 detail, click here.

Commemorate the complete inability to mimic a real chicken with this Arrested Development print from Etsy.

Coo-coo ca-cha!

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Never let your vodka go bad with these etched Arrested Development glasses from Etsy.

Allow GOB and Steve Holt to brighten your day. Let a little Tobias Fünke fill the hole inside you that you've had since the show got cancelled. Besides -- it's coming back next year.

[thatsnerdalicious]

Jason Bateman tweeted George Michael's arrival this weekend at the Bluth model home -- and the world rejoiced.

[forcesofgeek]

Oh, Ron Howard, thank you for this update via Twitter:

Arrested Development for Netflix. IT'S ALIVE. This is what the writer's room looks like.

(BTW, that's Mitch Hurwitz, looking considerably less excited than we are.)

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Just when you thought the Arrested Development news couldn't get any better, Lego builder Matt DeLanoy has created a Lego playset (complete with minifigs!) based on the recently-resurrected sitcom.

Structures include the Bluth home, the Bluth Company stair car, and the banana stand (money presumably not included).

The stair car is currently up for voting on Lego's crowdsourced idea site, Cuusoo, and could be turned into an official Lego set if it gathers enough votes and meet the approval of Lego's design jury.

Meanwhile, it's probably safe to say that the Lego version of the Bluth house is better-constructed than the real thing.

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Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz revealed this week that the show's 10-episode fourth season will be released ALL AT ONCE on Netflix Watch Instantly in 2013. Be sure to save a sick day for the occasion.

[flavorwire]