Ken Steacy goes on in 45 minutes and he’s bringing an entire galaxy of things to to the auction block so prepare your bodies and your paypal accounts!
This tidal wave of merchandise comes from the uncharted depths of Ken’s most secret hordes. Ken loves The Children. Don’t you? Show them your love and get some one of a kind merchandise like:
- Original black and white Tauren art, for the World of Warcraft card “Sunken Treasure”, created and signed by Ken Steacy! Comes with an artist proof of the playing card too!
- A set of four lenticular* Harry Potter trading cards, which were only ever available with the purchase of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans., all signed by Ken!
- A piece of full colour art created for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magazine! Retro awesome! Professionally matted and signed!
- A black & white original art of Magneto and The Juggernaut signed by Ken Steacy. This piece comes professionally matted, ready to be framed and hung!
- Original art of Doctor Doom and a minion drawn and signed by Ken Steacy. Matted, ready to be hung, and full of fun!
- Art created for Wizards of the Coast’s unreleased Marvel gaming card set X-Men: Generations, this full-colour original art of Shadowcat, Havok, & Arcade is signed by Ken Steacy!
- A full colour 16×20 piece of customized art of you, a friend, your cat–whoever! All to be made by Ken Steacy himself!
All of these items will be auctioned during our Evening with Ken Steacy, 7-9 PM PST!
This is it, Bus-fans! The very last chance to win a Desert Bus silent auction! You guys have been incredible and made so much money for the Children, but we can still go further! Keep bidding, keep giving, and twirling, always twirling!
All of these auctions come from the perilous vaults of Ken “Added Value” Steacy!
- First, Ken’s donated this sublime geek prize: an ILM commemorative Iron Man pin ONLY given out only to employees who worked on the Iron Man film!
- Next, the tremendous Ken Steacy offers up a junior soccer team pin featuring Spawn! Apparently Todd McFarlane made these for a friend’s kid in the early 90’s. What a guy!
- Finally, Ken is putting two binders full of concept art for Star Wars Episode I, which Ken used as a reference for numerous projects. These are binders to make Mitt Romney blush.
The CERN Awesome Pack goes up for auction in just 30 minutes! OMG.
Also known as the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN has donated some amazing items that are an absolute must for any nuclearphile or aspiring mad scientist!
This pack includes the following items:
- 1 CERN baseball cap
- 1 bracelet inspired by the geometry of the magnetic field surrounding the Large Hadron Collider beam pipes
- 1 keychain containing an ACTUAL piece of LHC superconducting cable
- 2 CERN pens
- 1 CERN lanyard
- 1 CERN compass
- 1 CERN tote bag
- 3 unused CERN punch cards (not available ANYWHERE)
- A Science t-shirt
- A Prestigious Discoveries at CERN book
- A copy of the Flight of the AMS’ Photo book about the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
- A copy of “Voyage to the Heart of Matter” pop-up book of the ATLAS experiement
- “The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment at the LHC” book
- An adorable plush Higgs Boson particle!
Hey Desert Bussers!
Here’s another batch of silent auctions to keep you happy and getting more monies to THE CHILDREN:
- Know that it’s time for murder and whale oil with this Dishonored Clock donated to us by the Escapist! This is a one-of-a-kind game journalist exclusive!
- Radoon has created an incredibly detailed Metroid Cross Stich from Super Metroid on the SNES! Perfect for the wall of any aspiring Mother Brain!
- We all love Felicia Day, but now you can take her home with this QMX limited edition “Penny” maquette from Dr. Horrible, signed by Felicia, as well as a signed 8×10 of Felicia in full Codex regalia!
- Ken Steacy has donated a set of set of 7 Silver Snail posters which included art by Paul Rivoche, Simon Bisley, Mike Mignola, Peter Moehrle, Michael Kaluta, and of course Ken himself!
This auction is for the original art done for the Magic the Gathering card for Fleeting Aven from Onslaught, donated and signed by the artist!!!
Iain McCaig divides his energies between a lifelong love of storytelling, and a passionate belief that everyone in the world can learn to draw.
McCaig is best known for his cover art for Jethro Tull’s ‘Broadsword and the Beast’ and for his Star Wars designs for Queen Amidala and Darth Maul. His other films include ‘Interview With the Vampire’, ‘Dracula’, ‘Terminator 2’, ‘Hook’, ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Charlotte’s Web’, ‘ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’, ‘John Carter’, ‘Jack the Giant Killer’, and ‘The Avengers’. He is also a Chesley nominated illustrator, having illustrated books ranging from ‘Fighting Fantasy’ to J.R.R.Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’.
In October 2008, Palace Press International published ‘Shadowline—the Art of Iain McCaig’, a 28 year retrospective of his film and publishing work.
Iain has also worked on many many games, including LucasArts ‘The Secret of Monkey Island’ and ‘The Dig’, three EA James Bond Games including ‘Goldeneye’, and recently for the first game by Respawn Entertainment (the former creators of the ‘Call of Duty’ franchise).
Currently, McCaig is developing an original live-action feature film, ‘The Book of Secrets’.
The challenge was to depict the true story of Bill’s mom putting Bill on a leash and tying him to a clothes line as a kid. Bill was a weird kid, he ate a frog at some point.
The winner was Morwenna!
Runner up was K.V1NN4!
And here are the rest of the entries!
Man, do you love Desert Bus? Do you want to express your love of Desert Bus with… a shirt? How about a soft, super awesome looking shirt designed by the good folks at Fangamer? Turns out we can meet those very, very specific needs!
We are thrilled to unveil the official shirt of Desert Bus for Hope 6!
Designed by the illuminous Jon Kay and printed on Creme or Brown American Apparel 2001 shirts (2102 for the ladies) by the road warriors over at Forward Printing in California, these shirts bring to mind the iconic signage of Las Vegas to really capture the “busperience.”
Available by pre-order only, all proceeds from the sale of the Desert Bus for Hope 6 shirt go directly to Desert Bus — it’s a great way to prolong our suffering and fill your closet!
Remember, this shirt is available for a limited time only, just like the Desert Bus! Orders must be placed by 8:00 PM EST on Nov. 22, 2012. After that, this shirt will be gone forever.
Please note these shirts will not ship until early to mid January, and won’t be available in time for Christmas.
For Morgan’s driver challenge he really wants to troll the show Dragon’s Den (or Shark Tank in the United States). For this challenge create a business proposal that may sound good on the surface, but is actually a terrible idea.
The winner will get a copy of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty Collector’s Edition signed by the development team http://desertbus.org/giveaway/256
The deadline for submission is 6pm PST (9pm EST)
Email your submission to contest@desertbus.org. Subject line: Morgan wants fun
- Create your own DB Adventure with a full set Elomin Sha’s of the Desert Bus “Drive Your Own Adventure (Dub Step Edition)”!
- A replica of the 10mm auto pistol from the Fallout game series made by the same prop makers who made the weapons for the series Fallout Nuka Break.
- Defend yourself with this pair of Steampunk NERF guns & holsters by HandsofGlue!
- The “I Love D&D Pack”, which includes signed books by R.A. Salvatore and Susan J. Morris, and a signed copy of the Red Box!
- A huge Guild lot that contains DVD copies of Seasons 1-5 signed by the whole cast, a Guild Trade Paperback (also signed), and an 8×10 photo (also signed)!
In just 2 hours Grant Imahara will be calling in to the Moonbase.
Grant Imahara is most famously known for busting myths as a co-host of the Discovery Channel show, Mythbusters. As a robotics and electronics specialist his work has been seen outside of the show in films, television and commercials. He is one of the handful of official operators of R2-D2 and also developed the custom circuit to cycle the Energizer Bunny’s arm beats. During his time at Industrial Light and Magic, Grant worked onJurrassic Park: The Lost World, the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. He has additionally competed on the television series BattleBot, with his robot Deadblow.
Grant will be calling in on Thursday, November 22, 2012 12:00pm PST.
Please add all your questions to the comments section below.