We’ve got a lightning fast Donation Drive coming your way so I’m not gonna waste too much time here! Any donations of $7.49 or multiples there of until 6:00 PM PST will enter you for a chance to win your very own Desert Bus for Hope 10 T-Shirt from Fangamer!
We often get entries for art challenges that are done by some of our younger viewers. We always love to get them and we make sure they go up on the blog for challenges, but it’s not often we get to feature them.
Tally wants to change that.
Tally’s art challenge is going to have TWO winners, one for the “adult” category and one for a “child” category. Tally has created images of the crew members which you can find down below. The challenge is to create a video of these characters in motion.
For all of our adults (who we describe as anyone over the age of 12), the challenge is to create an animation of 10 seconds that is a dance party of at least 3 of the characters. The prize for this is a Custom Cookie Order from Rocky Mountain Cookies.
For our younger viewers (12 and under), the challenge is to make a puppet show ranging from 30 seconds to 1 minute. The prize for this challenge is one of our Desert Bus 10 T-Shirts, 2 adorable little plushies and a couple of our Pig Sweetened bookmarks.
Please submit your entries to [email protected] with the subject line “Animation” or “Kids Animation”. All entries MUST be submitted in either .mov or .mp4 format. This challenge will run until 8 PM PST. As always, we will need display names of the winners to announce!
IMPORTANT: These videos will be potentially shown to the public, so be careful with using names/locations for children/yourself. If you want to just send us a video and not have it be shown please make it clear within the e-mail.
Now that we’ve all recovered from the conclusion of the Bus King pageant, it’s time to send another donation drive your way!
This Desert Bus Cross-Stitch Sampler is a little taste of the history of Desert Bus for Hope. Featuring some choice memes from every year of Desert Bus. 180 hours of cross stitched goodness could be yours in this donation drive.
Any donations of $9.10 or multiples thereof until 5:00 PM PST will get you an entry!
Jimmy Wong will be calling in at
5pm PST on Sunday, November 13th.
Jimmy Wong is an actor, musician, and podcaster known across multiple platforms across the internet. Best known for this role as the lovable best friend Ted in Video Game High School, Jimmy has since garnered a large fan base from his musical talent on his YouTube channel and his work at Rocket Jump Studios.
His most recent work as a host of the extremely popular Magic: The Gathering podcast The Command Zone has led to a surge of popularity amongst the Magic community. The Command Zone is a weekly podcast focused on all happenings of the multiplayer MtG format known as Commander. Jimmy is now a staple of the MtG community, appearing in numerous Wizards of the Coast Events; chief among them being the Magic Community Cup.
Have a question for Jimmy Wong? Leave it in the comments below.
After a year on hiatus due to our chief adjudicator running off with the Pageant Crown, we have returned strong this year!
Your former King Matt is of course, ineligible. Let us briefly reflect on the majesty that we can come to expect from our contestants.
We are using the same convention for casting your votes as we did in previous years: Donations of $7.0(x) where x is your contestant number.
To break it down:
The prize for this giveaway is going to be this Pinny Arcade Lot and anyone who donates until 3 PM PST is eligible for a chance to win!
Well dudes, it’s been cool. Beej and Jamie took on the roles of Beast and Belle for a charming Beauty and the Beast waltz.
Ashly Burch called in to chat about voice acting, writing, and gaming!
Then we had another dance party! Things got very tender to the tune of Chris de Burgh’s “Lady in Red!”
We made some Sunday NFL predictions! Currently we’re standing at 3 for 8, but I still feel like we can somehow go 13 for 13! Trust the process!
We welcome Gary Magnan of Freewheeling Games as a new sponsor to Desert Bus for Hope.
Freewheeling Games is an independent games developer focusing on homebrew titles for…The Intellivison. Those titles include something very near and dear to our hearts here, Desert Bus.
Desert Bus for Intellivision is currently up for sale with only 200 copies being created, and all of the proceeds go to Child’s Play.
Thank you, Gary, for supporting Desert Bus for Hope 10.
Inspired by our spectacular Marvel Comics lot, Matt has issued an art contest!
The premise: civil war has gripped Desert Bus for Hope, and we want you to illustrate it! We want a comic book cover that illustrates the different factions (who’s fighting on each side?), and the core conflict over which they are divided!
You have until 6pm Pacific to get your cover in! To enter, email [email protected], USE THE SUBJECT LINE “DESERT BUS CIVIL WAR,” and include the screen or chat name you’d like us to call you if you’re the winner!
Good luck artists!
We are happy to once again welcome Fernwood Coffee Company as our official coffee sponsor of Desert Bus 10.
Year after year Fernwood has been a massive part of keeping our volunteers alert and active with their wonderful coffee. The award winning roasters and brewers at Fernwood can be found at their cafe, The Parsonage. In addition to their cafe, the award-winning coffee beans can be purchased online so you can enjoy Fernwood coffee in your own home.
Thank you Fernwood for your continued sponsorship of Desert Bus for Hope with your caffeinated superpowers and for keeping us chest deep in that cold brew that no can get enough of.
The results are in for Jer’s Desert Bus App sticker contest!
Lora R. was our winner for this especially saccharine porcine! Lora will be getting dangerous with the Darkwing Duck prize lot!
Congrats as well to the other finalists whose entries are below!
And all the submissions we received are below! Thanks to everyone for sharing your artistic genius! (more…)
