Earlier in Beej & Johnny’s shift, we challenged the community to come up with their best interpretation of Beej and Johnny in a video game character creator. Here’s the winning submission, from Itazu!

The prize for this challenge was the chance to drive the bus remotely from home! Congratulations! Be sure to check the Desert Bus for Hope YouTube page for the video replay. We’ve included the rest of the entries submitted to us after the jump.

We welcome back MomoCon as a sponsor to Desert Bus 10.

MomoCon opened it’s doors to the public for the first time in 2005 as a free convention in Atlanta, GA. Since then, MomoCon has risen to become one of the largest anime conventions in North America.

MomoCon is an all-ages convention with a focus on Japanese and American animation, comics, video games and tabletop games.

Thank you, MomoCon, for your continued support of Desert Bus for Hope.

Well, given where we’re at right now, there’s a good chance this is our last Zeta Shift of Desert Bus 10. So, to close things out, we’re giving away… the ZETA MYSTERY BOX! (Not to be confused with the Mystery Box given away at the end of the run.) It’s a mystery… so you’ll have to wait to find out what’s included.

Donate $6.26 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize! We’ll run this donation drive until 6am PST.

We’re running out of driver shifts, which means you’re running out of chances to win a ultra fashionable Desert Bus 10 T-Shirt. Good news, though… the Desert Bus 10 T-Shirt is back on sale in all sizes at the Fangamer store, as they’ll be running a second printing of the shirt to ship out after the new year. But, through this donation drive, you can win a Desert Bus 10 T-Shirt and a Desert Bus Pinny Arcade Pin and a Desert Bus Patch!

Donate $5.10 (or multiples thereof) for a chance to win this prize. We’ll run this donation drive until 5:15am PST.

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!