We're finally doing it!!! A mobile casino train car is in the works for Burning Man and we want your help!!!

I’m Marvelous Marv and I want you to bet big with us and help bring our art car to life for this year’s Burning Man. We already have the frame, already have the art car permit, we have the plan, we just need help funding the build.

This year will be my 12th burn (13th if you count 2020) and my 8th time going with a blackjack set up. I started with a cart I pulled with my bike, it was the heaviest thing on the cheapest wheels and I put it together in someone's driveway for an all the money in my pocket (wasn't much at the time) and since then I have brought 3 different homemade caravan trailers and have had multiple different small mobile set ups. I have always put an unhealthy amount of work into what I bring out there and I live for it. It's the best container there is for the interactive experience and our goal is always to create moments that make someone's burn.

The thing is, big set up at our camp is fun but is static and requires set open times and a schedule and never leaving camp and only wanting to do it like 2 nights because once you open the trailer it's a lot to put it away so your "schedule" just means you're in camp all night til dawn. I can't really complain, I still get to do my art at the burn and I would be gambling anyway. But there are so so so many more people I want to impact with this game. I want to go to where the party is and create bigger and crazier moments.

For us to go bigger at the burn and do our project justice, to do it the way it has needed to be done but never has been big enough, is either do a large theme camp or an art car. A large steam camp can be great, but I know what kind of work that is, And it is an onslaught of continuous build and movement and organization and ruining everything that we have. Whereas in our car, we can close it up. And we can close it up during a storm. We can also move around at our own timing. We can come and hit things and places as they're going on in order to be big. We are the sideshow, and I think embracing the sideshow and helping create a circus wherever we go is what we are after this year. Are you with us?

Funding for this car will go towards the principal build, which is to add an exterior to look like an old circus train car, and many other things we need to get this train moving. We need to get a pulling vehicle and we are looking at old diesel aircraft tugs that we are going to make look like a tiny steam locomotive. Both of these projects with materials and fabrication require funds well beyond what our project can provide. That's where you come in.

Help us keep this thing going forward. Myself and my cursed brethren of Frick Frackers need your help. We are cursed because we need more, we need to keep it going bigger and better and wonkier. We work ourselves to the bone for this silly and utterly ridiculous thing, but we wouldn't have it any other way. It's a curse to be this lucky. Help us make this happen so we can cause the sensation that is worthy of this project and how impactful it can be at the right moment.

Just imagine it. You're out in deep playa riding through a light dust storm, it's first light and the sky is starting to orange. As things begin to clear and you can make out more around you then, out of nowhere, you come upon a very different kind of place. A full blackjack casino happening, a wild circus moment, what could be better.

Help me turn this into a reality. Share this gofundme and share the video on our instagram and YouTube.

If you think you may be able to provide support in any other way hit me up on email which you can find on our website www.frickfrackblackjack.com

We would love any and all possible help to make this happen.

See you in the desert my friends, the playa is calling.

Marvelous Marv

Game Creator and Folk Hero