Does it come with the Mountain Dew?

Mountain Dew & Halo are really a match made in heaven.

If I had some big ass gaming room i'd purchase it.

Wait, so they never even used it? It was just sitting there? =.= What a waste.

A Mountain Dew machine, in a game development studio, and it's never been used? Does not compute.

I bet it's haunted, like the Pac-Man machine. Crafty Bungie, selling their cursed Mountain Dew machine under the guise of "charity" for the "children."

Mountain Dew or Crab Juice. Ewwwww, I'll take the Crab Juice.

42 bids? Are you kidding me? What's sad is that the high bidder has (0) Reputation on eBay, so he probably isn't planning on paying for the thing.

I got so many steaktaculars that Luke can feed me for a week.

@Aethyr: Brawl. Add me.: Because all Microsoft employees (or anyone who works even remotely with Microsoft.) Get soda for free.

Dang I got outbid already. TIme to go sell my body some more.

Halo and Mountain Dew... Thems is tight, you know?

I reckon if Mountain Dew created their own award, Halo 3 would totally win it. That's how tight they are.

@Eville1:

Even if they do not get them for free, someone would pay to buy the pop.

Likely though it was kept in storage and never placed for use, or was placed as a decoration and never stocked.

15k for a used soda machine, with signatures of people no one knows its a bit steep.
and to whoever is auctioning this thing off if your selling an item for 15k how about you provide more photos outside of the one taken with a cell phone.

Screw shipping, I'll just go there and pick it up myself. It'll be a damn road trip but I think that it would be better for the environment then having the UPS guy do it.

@Morberis: It was just for decoration in the office. I have seen it in a bunch of videos from the Bungie offices. At least they are doing it for all the right reasons.

The post is incorrect. The auction didn't START at $15k, it's been bid UP to $15. I belive it started around $600.

The post is incorrect. The bidding did't START at $15k, it was bid up to that. I believed it started at around $600.

It WAS $600 a few days ago when I had a bid hahahaha

Man that would be cool if you could make it dispense beer or if all you had to buy was the "faceplate" and you could find your own vending machine.

Man, I wish I had the money. I too love Make a Wish, and would pay basicly any price for this collectable of one of the best multiplayer games ever made, plus to feel good about giving tons of money to my favorite charity. It is win win!

GL to who ever is bidding on it, and bid high. Think of the children! Wont someone please think of the children?!

I'm gonna buy it just so I can tip it over on it's face.

@Gadgetron: Bungie actually started it at $117 (Kotaku's wrong). People who looked at the photo decided to bump it to $15,000. Check the bid history:

Starting Price US $117.00
Mar-18-08 17:41:28 PDT

Looks like the bidding on it started at $117 and has gone up from there. Sadly, the last bid from anyone with more than a feedback of 5 was when it had just broken $1,000.

you can buy a standard vending machine and just make your own "faceplate" for less then the 15K this is just a waste of time and money both Bungie and the MTN dew people got more money then a lot of these folks trying to buy it why don't they just give the 15k out of their pockets and give it to the make a wish thing and throw awary that god forsaken machine in a bottomless pit or they could have a tourney on xbox-live and give the winner the soda machine.

They meant Luke Timmins, actually...

@MURDERFACE:

Have you ever heard of periods? I can't decide if you need more in your mess of a paragraph or if you're on one right now.

Besides, custom faceplates for vending machines already cost a jiffy, and it won't come with signatures of Bungie, and your money won't be going to a good cause. Plus, you can't just expect the Bungie guys to fork over the money out of their own pockets for various reasons. For one, we don't know if they already supported the fund, secondly, if people are willing to pay that much on their own (recall that a lot of people mention the bid started around $100, not $15k) then why not let them help out sick children while getting a well kept Soda machine with some fancy artwork and a bunch of signatures?

@Pezdispenser: It's just a comment on a website. Iam not writing my term paper or anything like that. Stop being such a grammar Nazi. yeah but getting signatures from random nobodies who work on Bungie on a machine like that is kinda a waste. That is like have the very first Spiderman comic and meeting Stan lee and having him sign it but also the guy who sold the comic to you at the comic book store puts his name on it too. It kinda kills it for me.Yeah i get it it's for sick kids that's fine and everything but why don't they just keep it simple and just have the artist and the Halo creator or even the president of the MTN dew company signatures and that's it? Cause Iam sure that the game tester had nothing to do with the artwork or the MTN Dew soda.

@MURDERFACE:
YOU sir... should get the banhammer for saying bungie nobodies...
Also Bungie probably makes it's own very sizeable donations to charity, who's to bitch at them for trying to raise a little more...?

I'm surprised they don't promise Gamer's Fuel or whatever that Mountain Dew Halo drink was. Considering they stopped making it and I knew a lot of people who liked it, this could have gotten big...

@MURDERFACE: Come off it - the lack of punctuation really sucks to read - I don't get why people choose to make their comments to hard to parse, the whole point of the internet is ease of communication - use it!

Yeah for charity!!!!
Sometimes people rock :)

They didn't drink it because it was filled with Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel.

@Morberis: No, not really. When you work in a place like that the last thing you want is more of what you're inundated with on a daily basis. Why bother wasting a buck when you can walk around the corner to the break room and guzzle an entire six pack of the stuff for free? Microsoft even stocked it's own kitchens with the gamer fuel limited edition cans and bottles.

I understand that you would buy this because it is Halo, EXTREEEEEEMEEEE!!!! And all that Jazz. But for this kind of bank you are essentially buying a refrigerator that can only chill and dispense cans of soda.

For that kind of money you could buy a Sub Zero refrigerator and have Halo characters, etc laser engraved into the steel. Better yet, when you realize that you are a huge loser for actually buying a laser etched Halo fridge you could go and just replace the part that was laser etched meaning you aren't sitting with a useless machine.

I mean, there is insane and fanboyishness when things are not mindbogglingly expensive and then there is just crazy... this falls under the latter.

@mmr: And people who bought Mondrian grids are paying millions of dollars for what essentially is a square of cloth and some paint.

Collectors are collectors. Get a clue; don't play dumb just so you can throw in some of the tired Halo hate that seems to be so popular here.

That being said, the auction itself looks kinda suspicious. A new seller, no Mission Fish, and crappy picture and listing? Hm.

@Sailorcancer: How could you driving across the country and back to get something possibly be more environmentally friendly than letting UPS deliver the machine?

I haven't been to eBay, so I might be wrong with my assumption, but I really hate it when eBay listings get press, because these crazy bids come from people who won't pay up. What I'd like to hear about is the bid that was actually paid. Since it's charity, I can sort of understand it, but this stuff shouldn't be newsworthy.

no

@boopadoo: Ys people always think that someone willbid higher on a charity auction..sadly tat just leads to NPB's

Is it a Transformer?

If not, pass.

Keep it away from Derick Smart.

Steaktacular *wink*

I listen to EGM Live.

I cant wait till this machine tips over and PWNS somebody.

Would LOVE to HAVE! <3 <3 <3