Daniel Beck won the Desert Bus Desert Buck contest by designing the perfect monetary currency of Desert Bus, but he didn’t let a little thing like winning stop him from continuing to make more!

Although the official term “Desert Buck” means a denomination of $22.805 (the amount of money raised by Desert Bus 1 for the woefully unknowing) Daniel has determined a Desert Buck to indicate the total raised by each year. In this way it seems more like a “Desert Bond” or a “Desert Stock”, but either way it’s freaking awesome.

Here are his other denominations!

Two Desert Bucks, AH AH AH

You’ve got four hours left to bid on the following auctions

• Ravnica Guild Signet Rings set: Ten (10!) 3D printed signet rings bearing the original guild symbols from the ten guilds of Ravnica!
• duct tape Desert Bus Deck Box (with unstoppable tiny Myr army!): Plus a hugely terrifying Creepy Doll figurine.
• Desert Bus 3000: In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only bus…
• Desert Bus leather arm band – small, steampunk style: Beautifully detailed with the words “Desert Bus for Hope,” surrounded by Desert Bus and steampunk imagery.

Plus the following auctions have just gone live!

• Custom painted Warhammer set: 40k or fantasy? You decide!
• Electric Blue – Tron painting, oil on canvas: Hyper realistic oil painting!
• Pyro Jack doll: From the game Shin Megami Tensei Series, and it even sparkles!

Thirty minutes until we start what is going to be one of the hottest live auction’s of our entire history!

Prepare your wallets for the unthinkable: A full, uncut, foil sheet of Return to Ravnica. Rares and Mythics. Simply stunning.

Thank you, Wizards of the Coast. Thank you.

You have a chance to make this once in a lifetime item yours today at 5:00pm PST

Tally loves costumes and dressing up in costumes (as all right thinking people should). During her shift she donned her Tigger/Hobbes costume and asked all of you to submit your costume photos. There were so many that it was really hard to choose a winner, but in the end we randomly selected Kia Ora’s Gundam Style costume.

Tally’s favourite was this costume by Leoma Silfren of Zora from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
 

 
And here are the rest! These photos make me want to dress up right now! 

One Desert Buck is $22,805, which is the amount we raised in the first Desert Bus. We had a contest to determine the design for both the paper/bill and metal/coin versions of the Desert Buck.

The winner of the paper/bill version was Daniel Beck!

The winner of the metal/coin version was Darcy Runham!

Thanks to everyone that entered!

Andrew Ferguson has been taken amazing photos of us throughout all of Desert Bus for Hope. If you want to see what you missed, or just want to see a different angle of the mayhem, make sure to check out photos.desertbus.org.

Here’s just a couple of the over 250 photos currently online.

BearKate & Kathleen Gangnam Style

Talleesi with Dragon

All is calm, all is bright

Round yon Loading Ready and Run

Driving buses so tender and wild

Bid in heavenly peace

Bid in heavenly peace

• Ravnica Guild Signet Rings set: Ten (10!) 3D printed signet rings bearing the original guild symbols from the ten guilds of Ravnica!
• duct tape Desert Bus Deck Box (with unstoppable tiny Myr army!): Plus a hugely terrifying Creepy Doll figurine.
• Desert Bus 3000: In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only bus…
• Desert Bus leather arm band – small, steampunk style: Beautifully detailed with the words “Desert Bus for Hope,” surrounded by Desert Bus and steampunk imagery.

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only bus…

It’s a little known fact that Graham Stark is in actual fact a planeswalker, a powerful mage able to travel across the planes of existence. We challenged you to create an image of Graham showing off his mystical abilities.

The winner was Simon Sweetman! Here’s what he says about his entry: ” I felt like Graham is more of a “managerial” planeswalker so to speak. I wanted to get across that he would have the Green mana equivalent of control magic… A beastmaster of sorts. Fun fact: The LRR logo is in the image in 3 places: On the chest plate, on the underside of the arm and on the embroidery of the fabric at the bottom.”

Runner up was Caitlin Ryther!

Honourable mentions are Stephanie Martin, Rhiannon McCullough, Ellie Ryan, and K. Schmidt!

Plus Aaron created this rad Flash game about Graham!

Thanks to everyone who entered, we loved looking at your artwork!

Miniature gaming megalith WizKids Inc. has joined this year’s Desert Bus as a new sponsor and given us a huge haul of HeroClix figures!

For those unaware, WizKids changed the face of collectable miniature games with the unique “clix” system that uses a rotating base to update figures battle stats and health. HeroClix, their primary line, has included DC and Marvel Superheroes as well as character lines from other properties like Street Fighter, Lord of the Rings, and Star Trek.

WizKids also makes collectable card games, board games, publishes novels for the MechWarrior and Mage Knight universes, and more! Check out their website to see what exciting products they have planned!