Desert Bus for Hope 3

From LoadingReadyWiki
Revision as of 12:48, 30 November 2009 by Manika (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigationJump to search

The 3rd Annual Desert Bus For Hope entitled Desert Bus 3 - Desert Bus VI in Japan, was held at 6pm PST on November 20th 2009. Lasting 5 days and 16 hours the crew raised over $132,000.

Notable Moments

  • Desert Bus for Hope Craft-a-Long

Conceived by forum member illuviel members of the Loading Ready Run forum handcrafted items to be auctioned during Desert Bus 3. Site-related items included the Lil' Warriors of Darkness (as seen in Pathfinder, Magicland) and a painting of Kate (in her gang outfit from Commodore Hustle).

  • That's No Moon, It's OctoPimp

OctoPimp was a chat member who won several auctions during the 5 day event. These included a custom artwork by Ken Steacy (Alex Steacy's Dad), Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged T-shirts with pins and singed DVD and an ONI PRESS collection of Scott Pilgrim comic books.

  • Matt pledging to go see a set amount of New Moon in one day if they broke $100,000. This was broken by a sniping by the OctoPimp.Matt's Regret

Auctions

  • City of Heroes game signed by the development team - Price Guessing Auction. A number was chosen from 5 to 15 (inclusive) and who ever in the chat bid that number first would win. Two song requests were taken and at the end the bids were check and no one had hit the selected number of 6. The chat were saying what they had bid to eliminate the wrong numbers. One chat member both confirmed the number and denied it by saying he bid 6 when they hadn't. Another song request was taken and the number was hit until a dual bid of 6 and 8 by a chat member won out. Total bids unknown.
  • 12 Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged T-shirts and pins - A signed DVD would be added by Kroze (member of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged) if the bid reached $650, this happened when a bidding war between OctoPimp and Tscully broke out. The final total was $666 by OctoPimp
  • ONI PRESS Collection of 5 Scott Pilgrim Comic Books. An infamous bidding war between OctopPimp and Overlordstowell, the bidding became so fierce that it stopped Graham and Kathleen from going home to get some sleep. The final total was $2,777.

Audio of this bidding war and part of the Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged bidding is available here: OctoPimp vs Overlordstowell

  • Custom Art Work by Ken Steacy. Final Bid was $1500 by OctoPimp.

Appearances and Phone-ins

  • Jonathan Coulton
  • Wil Wheaton
  • Wes Borg
  • Ken 'Value Added' Steacy

Songs

Some of the songs sung during Desert Bus 3:

  • A Whole New World from Aladdin - Sung by Graham and Alex
  • Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton
  • Particle Man by They Might Be Giants
  • Snake Eater, the theme from MGS3
  • Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Love Shack by the B-52s
  • We Are The Champions by Queen
  • Gaston (as Roscoe) from Beauty and the Beast
  • The Darkwing Duck Theme
  • I'm A Little Teapot
  • Do you Wanna Date My Avatar?
  • LoadingReadyRap by 64K - Performed by 64K
  • Re: Your Brains?
  • Piano Man by Billy Joel
  • The Times They Are A'Changing by Bob Dylan
  • Modern Major General - Sung by Dale
  • Blame Canada From South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut
  • Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
  • Barbie Girl by Aqua - Sung By Dale and Tally
  • We Will Rock You by Queen
  • The Internet is for Porn from Avenue Q
  • The Final Countdown (as The Final Busdown) by Europe
  • The War of 1812 - Sung by Wes Borg
  • Every OS Sucks - Sung by Wes Borg
Retrieved from "https://wiki.loadingreadyrun.com/index.php?title=Desert_Bus_for_Hope_3&oldid=10264"