THE GOOD NEWS is that we were able to go back in time and stop Eviltron and his forces from enslaving the human race and blowing up the Earth with his Destructo-Beam! HOORAY!
THE BAD NEWS is that of all the possible, alternate timelines? THIS ONE was the only timeline where there was still an Oddmall Creepsmas Show in November – just not on the same dates? Well there WAS one other timeline with Oddmall in November, but everyone was Dungeoness Crabs. Cute, sure… but crabs don’t have POCKETS with which to carry any cash, checks or credit cards!
So please make sure to update your calendar so you don’t miss the great big Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird CREEPSMAS 2026 Art, Craft & Gift Show November 21-22 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA! We’ve got lots of fun, NEW stuff for you this time around, as well as all the stuff you’re used to by now – free admission, free parking, 170 weird-o artists & assorted vendors, jugglers, food trucks, your chance to fight a dude in a wheelchair, over 100 Door Prizes AND MORE!
The next Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird show will be CREEPSMAS! Our annual Christmas Craft Show for folks what loves Halloween! Returning to the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA November 14-15 with Free Admission, Free Parking and all the other stuff y’all love about a Captain Slinky show! More info as we have it, but right now we’re getting ready to go to DISNEYLAND!!!
Evergreen State Fairgrounds Gary D. Weikel Event Center, Monroe WA
BE PREPARED FOR: Instant-Win Costume Contest, 60 Second Dungeons, Juggling, Prize Wheel, Door Prizes, over 170 local, weird-o artists and vendors, NO PETS (so sad), 8 Food Trucks, Roller Derby, Stock Car Races, Beautiful Weather (this could change).
OF COURSE we’re going to have the famous Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird Off-Season Costume Contest! We had such a good time with the Instant Win Cash Prizes at Creepsmas last year, we decided to bring it to SPRUNG as well!
Wear an approved costume (see Official Rules at http://www.oddmall.co/costumes) to the Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird SPRUNG 2026 Art, Craft & Gift Show at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA. Find the Oddmall Headquarters at the back of the room and have them take your picture, which we will post on our Oddmall social media accounts for all to see. Fill out the official Entry Form (which will ask you for your name, age, costume and a way to contact you if you win) and give it to us. We then check The Big List Of Prizes to see if you won one of over 100 Costume Contest Prizes, and THAT’S IT! No entry fee! No walking out on a stage! No Costume Parade! Just show up in a costume, fill out the form, take a pic, get a prize, DONE! Winner will be announced and contacted before Thanksgiving!
Prizes will be handed out for over 20 different “Mystery Categories” that you won’t even know you’re competing for! Past prize categories have been “Best Themed Couple”, “Most Wheels”, “Cutiest Patootie”… Prizes may include Stickers, T-Shirts, and CASH ranging anywhere from $1 to $50! BOTH DAYS!
Check out all the official rules at http://www.oddmall.co/costumes before you join us at the Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird SPRUNG 2026 Art, Craft & Gaming Show April 18-19 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA!
Thank you, Flying Pig! Always there for us at Bank Machines and other of life’s various line-ups! This is just an update to let you know that the Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird SPRUNG 2026 Art, Craft & Gaming Show is coming to the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA the weekend of April 18-19! 10am till 6pm on Saturday, 10am till 5pm on Sunday! Make plans NOW!!!
As always, both admission AND parking are on us so you’ll have more money in your pocket to spend on the wonderful treasures our vendors are bringing to tempt you with! Heck, even if you DON’T spend any money, come on down and win some prizes, play some games, and see wondrous art that will make you ask at least 27 questions!
The official page for all the info you’ll need can be found at http://www.oddmall.co/sprung or by clicking on The FLying Pig up there. I’m updating the website ALL THE FRIGGIN’ TIME with new information and updates, including:
The Instant Win Costume Contest
The Prize Wheel of Destiny
All 170 Weird-O Vendors
List of Food Trucks
60 Second Dungeons Challenge
Fighting A Dude In A Wheelchair
Directions and Maps
…And whatever else I can think of! So make plans to join us at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds April 18-19 and have a little fun!
BE A PART OF ODDMALL!!! Buy a square (or several squares) of advertising in the Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird SPRUNG 2026 Art, Craft & Gaming Show VENDOR MAP!!! We hand out THOUSANDS of these over the course of the weekend because we use them to send people on QUESTS for their Door Prizes! Plus, it features exclusive artwork by artist CHAD SCHERES (Topps “Wacky Packages”, “Garbage Pail Kids”, etc) so of course this will become a highly sought-after collectable that folks will send off to a grading company so it can be encased in plastic and labeled “9.8” till the day they sell it for a bajillion dollars – AND YOU WILL BE A PART OF THAT LEGACY!!!
We have two levels of advertising available this time around, so everyone can afford to be a part of this momentous occasion! We have the classic 2″x2″ Full Color Outer Square (back and outside of the map) for the traditional $30, and then we also have the new 1.5″x1.5″ Full Color Interior Square (header and footer of the actual Map and Vendor Directory). Buy one! Buy them ALL!
You don’t have to be a vendor or a business or even serious – as long as it’s not Politics, Religion or Pornography, we’ll put it on our map! All ads will be judged on our “Don’t Be A Dick” before we accept it, and if we WON’T print it we’ll reach out and let you know why, try and rework it so we can print it!
Click the image above, the link above, or just go to https://form.jotform.com/240726931110144 to get your space before they sell out! DEADLINE IS MONDAY MARCH 15TH!
There’s a lot of confusion about the whole Application Process for Oddmall Vendors, so I figured I should write it out in a post that I can point at rather than typing it over and over and over again
STEP 1: STARTING INVENTORY. At every Oddmall, we offer the vendors the opportunity to purchase a space for the next Oddmall show; they have “Dibs”. They can pay in cash at the show, or pay online up to 3 days before we open applications to new vendors. We have between 40%-75% of our sales this way. This time around, we pre-sold 83 out of the 170 available spaces. That’s roughly 50% of the spaces before we even look at an application!
STEP 2: APPLICATIONS. We accept applications for new vendors for a week OR till we have over 150 applications, whichever comes first. We do our darndest to post on a daily basis during this time across Facebook, Instagram, BluSky and Threads PLUS send notifications via our newsletter to make sure everyone has ample chance to go fill out an application, and we announce when we close the applications.
STEP 3: FIRST PASS. We go through all the applications and pick out the ones we KNOW we won’t be approving for one reason or another; already too many vendors that are selling the same category of stuff, too “Adult”, too “Vanilla”, MLM, Pyramid Scheme, Drop Shippers, etc. Rejection notes go to them.
STEP 4: OBVIOUS CHOICES. During The First Pass, we will have marked all the applications that are just obviously too awesome to not be in Oddmall; Stuff we’ve literally never seen anywhere else, vendors we have poached from other shows (shameless!), stuff we REALLY want a chance to buy and bringing them to OUR Oddmall might be our only chance… Acceptance Letters go to as many of those folks as we have spaces available.
STEP 5: THE GRIND. Every day that we DON’T sell out of spaces entirely, we send another two or three “Obvious Choice” vendors acceptance letters. We also start grouping the Obvious Choice vendors into categories of what they sell so we don’t end up over-saturating with one type of vendor, and we start approving folks based mostly on what kind of vendor I want in a space rather than just any vendor regardless of what they do.
STEP 6: ENDGAME. Once we have just 5 or 6 spaces left, we look at the amount of Approved Applications we still have out there that haven’t paid and make a few posts about how we’re really down to the nitty-gritty here and those outstanding vendors might not get in! We usually time this around one or two vendors who have been approved and they contacted us to say something like “Aww jeez can I pay on Friday?” so we make a post saying “Okay, if we still have spaces come Saturday Morning, we’re approving more vendors!”
STEP 7: REMNANTS. Once we have filled all the spaces, we send rejection letters to everyone that’s left to let them know they’re definitely good enough for Oddmall, we just ran out of room!
The Captain Slinky Application Approval Machine is fired up and ready to go! We approve new vendors in batches, so if/when you get your acceptance email GO PAY ASAP! APPROVAL DOES NOT GUARANTEE YOU A VENDOR SPACE! We approve more vendors than we have space for!
Why?
Because people are human and things happen. Some people forget the applied. Some people’s approval letters will get helpfully sorted to the Spam folder. Some people have life-altering events happen that make paying for a space at a craft show REAL LOW on their list of priorities. And some people will just keep saying “Ooof, that’s right, I need to go pay that” till the weekend after Oddmall.
Meanwhile, there are a couple hundred OTHER applicants that are ready to go! They’re rabid to get in! And I gotta fill this map so I can get some printed up for the show (Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird SPRUNG Art, Craft & Gaming Show April 18-19 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA)!
We are no longer accepting new vendor applications for the Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird “SPRUNG” Art, Craft & Game Show April 18-19 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA. We kept the applications open for a week! We posted about it! We sent emails! I swear!
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