This evening’s creative challenge is… interesting, but we hope you’ll have a lot of fun with this. First things first, ever seen Monster Factory? It’s a web series where they create a grotesque character in a game (using a character builder of some kind), come up with some backstory, then play through the game as that character they’ve created.
Now that we’re on the same page, in this creative challenge, we’ve tasked the community to create Beej, Johnny, or both in a character creator from the video game of your choice, as grotesque as possible (but still bus-friendly, please!). Then take a picture and send it in to us!
Send your entries to contest@desertbus.org with the subject line “Monster Factory.” Please send your submissions in as .png or .jpg and be sure to include the screen name we should use for you should your submission win. Up for grabs is… a chance to drive the Desert Bus remotely from home! (This also means that we strongly recommend making sure you’ll be online when this challenge concludes, around 5:45am PST.) We’ll run this challenge until 5:15am PST.
Hey space cowboys out there, we’ve got a giveaway for you! We’re running a donation drive for this collection of Cowboy Bebop items, including the complete series on Blu-Ray and DVD and two art books, all signed by Steve Blum, the voice of Spike.
Donate $8.26 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 4:15am PST.
Up next, we’re running a donation drive for this limited-edition Destiny Titan figure. Not only is this item a limited edition, it’s been signed by the team at Bungie!
Donate $7.77 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 3:30am PST.
The super generous Ken ‘Value Added’ Steacy provided us with a lot of great items this year as live auctions, silent auctions, and donation drives! So, here we are with another donation drive, featuring a complete set of 16 Astro Boy comics Ken worked on as author and illustrator.
Donate $7.16 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 2:30am PST.
Note: At the request of Ken Steacy, and with the permission of Child’s Play, 50% of the donations for this item will go to the Desert Bus organizing team, in recognition of their efforts in putting on this event. The other 50% will go to Child’s Play. More information is available here.
With this Desert Bus Bustomata, you can relive the magic of Desert Bus at home wherever you go! Simply crank the wheel to spin the odometer and turn the clock between all four shifts. It’s like being at Desert Bus, at home.
Donate $6.26 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 2am PST.
We welcome back Wyrmwood Gaming as a sponsor for Desert Bus 10.
Wyrmwood Gaming is a small customer-focused company founded by three friends, whose mission is to deliver exceptionally crafted tabletop gaming accessories. They offer elegant deck boxes, dice towers, dice vaults, and more in an array of beautiful, natural, North American-sourced woods.
Thank you Wyrmwood Gaming for your contributions and continued support of Desert Bus for Hope!
Well, what have we here… we found a few spare pins lying around in the prize mines, so we’re putting them up as a donation drive! This is the second of three chances to win a pin through these special donation drives (in addition to the pins we send out as part of every auction or giveaway). These pins are sold out and ultra limited, so this might be one of your last chances to get one!
A reminder on how Donation Drives work… donate the amount listed for this drive, or a multiple thereof, on desertbus.org for a chance to win. The higher the multiple, the more chances you have. However, it’s got to be an exact multiple or it won’t count towards the drive. You don’t need a donor account to participate, but having one set up with your up-to-date shipping information helps us get any prizes out to you faster!
Donate $7.07 (or a multiple thereof) for a chance to win this prize. For this special donation drive, we’ll be drawing 10 winners. We’ll run this donation drive until 1am PST.
BB-8 is the adorable little beach ball droid that rolls around with you by your side, through desert and space. In this donation drive, you can win this adorable hand-crafted BB-8 amigurumi that’ll always have your back.
Donate $8.88 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 11:55pm PST.
We’re excited to announce a new silent auction that’s been scheduled to start tomorrow morning. If you tuned in to Penn Jillette’s call-in earlier this evening, you might have noticed that, thanks to Penn’s generosity, we’ve added a lot that includes two tickets to the San Francisco screening of ‘Director’s Cut’, a signed copy of Penn’s book ‘Presto!’, a signed Deadpool comic, and a signed Fool Everyone magic kit!
This silent auction will start at 6:00am PST and runs for eight hours, until 2:00pm PST. You’ll need a donor account to participate in this, so head over to the sign up page to get set up. And, don’t forget to check the Silent Auctions page to check out the other great items we have up for auction right now!
For the browncoats out there for whom the sky can not be taken away from, we have a sweet set of Firefly posters that could be yours as part of this donation drive. Donate $6.22 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 10:55pm PST.