Coming up at 3:00pm today is our next Live Auction! We’ll be auctioning one of the ultra rare (one of only five!) hardcover editions of the Desert Bus for Hope 2019 Photo Book!
The Desert Bus for Hope 2019 Hard Cover Photo Book has it ALL! Photos from Desert Bus for Hope 2019, photos of the behind the scenes from Desert Bus for Hope 2019, 166 pages made from paper, a quantifiable amount of text, and who could forget the cover that is certifiably HARD!
Not only featuring the iconic hard cover, this year’s photo book also features almost 40 more pages than the softcover photo books, making these even more special than usual!
The ultimate in Desert Bus for Hope 2019 memorabilia can be yours! Two of the five limited edition Photo Books are available through giveaway and auction.
Remember, to bid on Live Auctions, you’ll need to create a Donor Account and link it to your Twitch account. All Live Auctions are conducted in chat at twitch.tv/desertbus. Remember to watch chat for the latest updates, as the video feed is usually a few seconds behind the live chat.
Look out for the other hardcover copy of the photo book to be given away as a Donation Drive during tomorrow’s Dawn Guard. And, if you want a softcover version of the photo book for your library, you can buy a copy right now on the Desert Bus store at store.desertbus.org.
Thanks to your eternal generosity, we’ve raised over $450,000 this year! Woo hoo!
Thanks to all of you for your continued support. You are awesome!
Physical Distancing got you down? Missing out on the energy of big Magic events? Looking for a little slice of the MtG experience to share with your bubble? Well we have you covered with this amazing MagicFest in a Box lot from Channel Fireball. This lot of Magic: the Gathering-themed prizes can be yours in this Donation Drive!
Featuring everything you need to host your very own mini-MagicFest in the comfort and safety of your own home. Sure you might not have to brave the gauntlet of vendors, but just think how much easier it will be to find a cup of coffee (or other beverage of your choice) without the convention hall lineups? You even get to poop in your own toilet!
In this lot you’ll find many many promotional Magic: the Gathering cards, a Commander deck box and sleeves, and an exclusive MagicFest playmat!
Donate $8.75 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this Donation Drive until 1:45pm PST.
We have two special guests with us today on Alpha Flight… Andrew Cownden and Madeleine Suddaby! They’ll be joining us all shift today and tomorrow.
Andy is a professional actor/writer/oddball and has been a Desert Bus regular since 2007. Please forward all complaints to @AndrewCownden on twitter.
Madeleine is a singer/dancer/actor/animal-crosser/makeup-artist from Vancouver, BC. Notable Desert Bus moments include singing the ever-loving bus out of Wicked, singing a duet from Anything Goes with Andy, and making Ben cry while singing Moana. It’s mostly singing. Check out “Madelaide” on YouTube and Instagram for her makeup antics!
If you’ve got a question or challenge for Andrew or Madeleine, you can submit those here on the Desert Bus website. Make sure you’re logged in to your donor account, then go to https://desertbus.org/participate/challenge.
Thank you so much to Flying Ultra Car for your winning submission to the challenge!
And also to our second place winner, Leonhart321, for this amazing Kamen Rider-esque submission with one BUS of a backstory!
14 Years ago, Jack “Jocko” O’Brien was a bus driver of middling renown. He was never late for a shift, never deviated from a route and always kept to his timetables. His passengers always enjoyed taking his route, and he made sure everyone got where they needed to.
Until one day, he was abducted from his bus while on route to his first stop by the villainous Neo-Zeta group. Their aim? To combine the power of vehicles with humans to create an army of soldiers to conquer the world. His strict adherence to his route and timetables made him the perfect candidate for their Battle: Urban System (B.U.S) as someone able to navigate traffic with that level of efficiency using a bus would be unstoppable.
However, they underestimated just how dedicated to his Rota he was. Before he could have his mind reprogrammed to serve Zeta, he broke free of his restraints and ran to his trusty bus, redesigned as the urban armored personnel carrier, to escape and serve his passengers. Trapped in his solar powered armor and with the ability to remotely control his bus, that he rechristened Guardian in its new role as a protector of the public, he took the name Kamen Rider Dawn from some old Japanese show he remembered watching one time.
He fights to destroy the group that trapped him in his armor and to see if one day, he can free himself and feel the wind blowing on his face once more.
Zeta beware! For the Dawn’s Guard Rides!
We’re proud to welcome back Humble Bundle as a sponsor of Desert Bus for Hope.
Humble Bundle is a distribution platform that sells games, ebooks, software, and other digital content and contributes to hundred of charities through every sale. Since Humble’s founding in 2010, their mission has been to support charity while providing awesome content to customers at great prices. From their beginnings offering game bundles, they’ve grown to include an online storefront, publishing, a monthly subscription service, and more.
Thank you Humble Bundle for your contributions and support of Desert Bus for Hope!
Magic cards! We’re giving away a collection of super rare and super shiny Magic: the Gathering cards, aggregating five sets from the Secret Lair Drop series!
Goblins have one solution to all problems. EXPLOSIONS!!! With Secret Lair < explosion sounds > you get foil alternate art versions of Goblin Bushwacker, Goblin Sharpshooter, Goblin Lackey, Goblin King, and Goblin Piledriver, all with art by Mike Uziel. Careful they don’t blow up on you.
Some fairies are beautiful, some are dangerous, these are both. Lena Richards brings us an foil alternate art Bitterblossm and a set of 4 foil alternate art fairy tokens that form a panoramic scene in Secret Lair Bitterblossom. Watch your life total and be prepared for mischief.
OMG KITTIES! Need we say more. Featuring foil alternate art versions of Arahbo, Roar of the World, Leonin Warleader, Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist, Qasali Slingers, Regal Caracal, and 2 Different Cat Tokens by Andrea Radeck, Erica Williams, Jakob Eirich, and Allison Carl, these cute and fluffy kitties will make your deck 10,000 times more adorable. Meow.
Sometimes the dead don’t stay dead. In Secret Lair Restless in Peace, Dan Mumford resurrects Golgari Thug, Life from the Loam, and Bloodghast, all in foil with alternate arts. Life finds a way, so does death.
What would you do if you could see the future, or at least the next 2 cards? In Secret Lair Seeing Visions you have 4 different versions of Serum Visions, each in foil and with art raging from street to abstract by Kristina Collantes, DXTR, Lauren YS, and Jaime A. Zuverza.
These 5 secret lair sets are no longer for sale, but you can get them here. Each comes with foil alternate art of some of Magic’s most famous cards and contain redemption codes for Magic Online and Magic Arena.
Donate $5.22 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 11:45am PST.
WE HIT $6.5MILLION LIFETIME FOR CHILD’S PLAY CHARITY!!!!!
This is such an incredible feat to hit in our many years. Thank you all so much for being here with us and helping us along the way. We LITERALLY couldn’t have done this without you. Every one of you. Even if you just gave $1. Or your crafts. Or your time watching. You helped.
So…Thank you! 
MAGIC!
I hope you like Magic because this lot contains A LOT of Magic! In it you will get a booster box of Throne of Eldrain, a booster box of Guilds of Ravnica, a Jace Signature Spellbook, a Quiver card case with a pack of 300 sleeves, and a Card Kingdom Boulder deck box. To top it all off you also get the SDCC 2017 exclusive Nicol Bolas poster. This poster was only available at SDCC and features artwork by Vincent Proce and is printed on Magic card stock.