ODDMALL Emporium Of The Weird – PNW Editions

Folks, it’s been one heck of a wacky weekend! See, we had some problems with our applications process that meant we weren’t able to approve or deny applications for, like, THREE MONTHS. Once we got it fixed, ALL THE EVERYONE got approved at once, which made us completely sell out of spaces overnight on Saturday night! This should be GREAT news, right? What kind of local craft show sells out of 170 spaces three months before the show! That’s NUTS!

Unfortunately, this left about 130 vendors in our system that had been approved but never had access to the Vendor Agreement Invoice, which is what lets you pay us and makes us put you on the map. ALL SPACES FOR THE CAPTAIN SLINKY ODDMALL EVENTS ARE AVAILABLE ON A FIRST-PAID, FIRST-SERVED BASIS! You could be approved and still not be guaranteed to get a space at Oddmall till you’ve paid. As “Let Them Eat Cake” as it sounds, all an approval from our judges means is that we will allow you to give us money for the privilege of being in our show. And when your money comes, we will use it to buy more champagne hot tubs and cocaine lobsters. IT’S CAPITALISM, BABEEEEE!!!

We can’t leave all those vendors stranded, regardless of how Elite we may be!

We are currently waiting to hear from The Fairgrounds to see if we can expand to a SECOND BUILDING for all those who have been left behind. This is going to be a HUGE GAMBLE for us, seeing as how this is the same weekend as such great shows as Grit City Comic Show, Geek Girl Con, KumoriCon and more! If we can get the second building (which holds about 90 vendors), this is going to be NUTS. MORE ENTERTAINMENT! MORE PHOTO OPS! MORE PRIZES!!! MORE OF THE GOOD KIND OF WEIRDNESS WE ALL THRIVE ON!

So now all we have to do… is wait. Wait to hear from the folks at the Fair Grounds. They’re great to us and scrambling to find solutions for us AS WE SPEAK! But till then, your pal Captain Slinky is just kind of in a holding pattern waiting to spring into action and make this all happen!

Keep an eye on all our Social Media accounts for updates!

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It only took me, what, four months to finally fix everything and start approving applications again? Anyways, it’s FIXED and you can now apply for the upcoming Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird CREEPSMAS 4 Art, Craft & Gift Show November 9-10 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA once again by clicking here: http://www.oddmall.co/application

We are in negotiations to have Tazz, The Gator of Granite make a PERSONAL APPEARANCE at our upcoming Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird CREEPSMAS 4 Art, Craft & Gift Show November 9-10 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA!

No idea who “Tazz” is? Well then let me tell you a story in as close to “Real Time” as I can here.

It started with a Facebook Post from Oddmall artist Shanna Duncan saying something along the lines of “Uh oh, looks like Tazz got out of his enclosure”

This was followed by several posts in various local Facebook communities of Snohomish County such as, and this is in order over the next hour or two “OMG THERE’S AN ALLIGATOR LOOSE IN GRANITE FALLS!”, “TEN-FOOT LONG ALIGATOR SPOTTED IN SNOHOMISH COUNTY”, and my favorite, “ANYONE MISSING A POODLE? 10-FOOT ALLIGATOR LAST SEEN WITH TEETH COVERED IN BLOOD AND POODLE FUZZ!!!”

Shanna’s next post: “I think somebody’s spotted Tazz”.

Next come news stories from all the local news stations, National News, People Magazine, Forbes Magazine, The USA Today…

And so the day went back and forth between Shanna’s “Local TV is here interviewing my kids about the ‘Alligator’ lol” and eye-witness accounts of “TEN FEET LONG, TEETH LARGE AS BUTCHER KNIVES AND TWICE AS SHARP! GLOWING RED EYES, SWEAR TO GAWD!” and then, finally, The Truth of it all:

He’s just a sweet little Tegu named Tazz 🙂

And if all goes according to plan, YOU CAN MEET THE INFAMOUS GATOR OF GRANITE FALLS at the upcoming Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird CREEPSMAS 4 Art, Craft & Gift Show November 9-10 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA, FOR FREE!!!

…And then I forgot to update this page with information regarding the next Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird CREEPSMAS November 9-10 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA! We’re already over half-way to being sold out, but you can still apply at http://www.oddmall.co/application and see if you’ve got to join our little Oddmall family!

I gotta admit, it’s going to be a big weekend with LOTS of different events going on across the PNW that appeal to our “Target Demographic”, so be sure you choose the right event for you!

First off, there’s Geek Girl Con at the Seattle Convention Center, a two-day event that focuses on – you’re not gonna believe this – GEEK GIRLS! Comics, Sci-Fi, STEM, Gaming, Media – it’s a great show and you definitely need two days to appreciate it all! Tickets are reasonably priced at as low as $15 for a kids weekend pass and $40 for a single-day adult admission. And TEENS get in for less than an adult! A great event totally worth your time and effort!

Then there’s the Grit City Comic Show at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center, which is just Saturday November 9th and they use up every bit of it! Last of the old-school, local, affordable Comic Book Conventions – JUST TEN BUCKS! THIS is the type of Ciomic Book Convention I love!

And then of course there’s the Kumoricon Anime Convention down in Portland at the Oregon Convention Center November 8-10 (THREE DAYS!) that you might also be interested in, assuming your down for a few hours of driving 😉 It’ll cost you $70 per person to attend for the entire weekend or for just a day – they are a non-profit organization that doesn’t sell tickets; they register members!

I mention these three because if I WEREN’T Captain Slinky and I WEREN’T running an Oddmall, I’d likely be attending one of these events 🙂

So for comparison, Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird CREEPSMAS Art, Craft & Gift Show November 11-12 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA offers FREE ADMISSION and FREE PARKING! Over 170 Local Weird-O Artist-type folks and makers, a Cash Prize Costume Contest, food trucks, jugglers, over a hundred door prizes, your chance to fight a dude in a wheelchair, free pictures with Krampus, and theming that is squarely between Halloween and Christmas!

Mama Slinky and I have created a show for you that we would rather go to than anything else that weekend 🙂 Keep an eye on all our Social Media accounts for updates – sometimes we get celebrities, inventors, cool promotions, contests and MORE!

April 20 – 21 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA!

JOIN US and several of our Oddmall Game-Publishing vendors at Shielded Grounds Coffee and Tabletop Gaming (123 N. Blakeley St. in Monroe) for an Oddmall Game Night complete with a raffle for PRIZES! For just $5 you’ll get to come and experience all that Shielded Grounds has to offer, as well as play games with the folks what made them! Or play completely different games! Shielded Grounds is a project that I’m kind of passionate about supporting – a certified “Safe Space” Coffee Shop with tons of room for even the largest of games, comfy seating, gender-neutral restrooms, great coffee, and you can pay five bucks and just BE THERE. Like, you can’t go to a restaurant or a bar because they expect you to keep buying stuff if you want to stay. You can’t go to the library because you gotta keep quiet and besides it’s full of “Normal” People. But Shielded Grounds? Give them five bucks, check out the game library, see if anybody wants to play, maybe try out a new game, or heck even if it’s DEAD in there, just getting the chance to paw over some games and read the instructions at your own pace? HEAVEN!
SO! How do you get to go to this special event? BUY A TICKET! Tickets can be purchased from Shielded Grounds directly, and they’ll be at Oddmall repping the shop at space D16. Drop on by!
Oh, I should mention that one of the prizes is A FRIGGIN’ TATTOO!!! Directly from Laughing Fox Studios at Lemon Drop Tattoos:

• Up to 4 inches
• Arm or leg placement only
• It can be available flash or a custom piece! I particularly love nerdy themes, spooky/witchy vibes, florals/botanicals, comics, and illustrative work.
• Winner does have to be 18 or older, as Washington doesn’t allow folks under 18 to be tattooed even with parental consent.
• They are welcome to gift it to someone else if they win and aren’t into tattoos!

Other prizes are pretty self-explanatory – a sealed pack of Fallen Empires M:TG, a knock-off Lego set that makes a “Bat Sport Car”… all pretty cool!

Oddmall 4/20 Game Night
April 20, 2024
6:00PM till it’s done
Shielded Grounds
123 N. Blakeley St.
Monroe, WA

Teen Heartthrob singing sensation Chad Scheres (Garbage Pail Kids, Mars Attacks, Star Wars, Wacky Packages and pretty much any series of illustrated Topps Trading Cards) will be bringing all his Toyghoul Industries, Inc. goodness with him to the big Captain Slinky Presents: Oddmall Emporium of the Weird – SPRUNG 3 Art, Craft & Gaming Show April 20-21 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA where you can come hassle him for FREE! He can hardly wait to hear all your suggestions for Wacky Packages puns, Garbage Pail Kid names (“Captain STINKY”), or just your theories on why Kylo Ren is technically one of the Monster Cereal mascots like Count Chokula! We had him make up this special image for the Sprung show which will be available for a LIMITED TIME at http://www.tinyurl.com/oddmallmerch as both a T-shirt AND a stylish zip-up Hoodie! Get one before it’s gone!

That’s right! Wear a costume to the Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird SPRUNG Art, Craft & Gaming Show April 20-21 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA and YOU could win an exclusive NFT – NEARLY FULL TUMBLER FULL OF CASH!!! There’s at least $120 in there! For full details head on over to http://www.oddmall.co/costumes but basically? Come find us at Oddmall, let us take your picture so we can post it online, and then on Monday April 22nd we will announce the winner! No entry fee! No walking out on a stage! No skit, no dance, no performance! Just show up and enter! Everyone who enters gets an Oddmall Sprung poster!

We here at Oddmall are excited to announce our new, experimental merchandising scheme in conjunction with local the teen heartthrobs at HighFive Laser Engraving & 3D Printing – ON DEMAND MERCHANDISE!!! Click on over to our Oddmall Merchandise Page and check out the ever-evolving list of Oddmall Goodies you can pre-order and pick up RIGHT AT ODDMALL, saving you the cost of shipping!!! Now you’ll have more money to spend at Oddmall!!! They will be set up in the lobby by the restrooms, very easy to find! There’s actually THREE WAYS to get your merchandise (not limited to just shirts, btw) – Order in advance (so you can pick it up at the show), Order online (you CAN get it shipped, it’ll just cost ya), or my FAVORITE ONE, you can have them print your merch RIGHT THERE! AT THE SHOW! BY THE RESTROOMS!!! How cool is that???

You see this? THIS is the Vendor Map Spotlight flyer that will be handed out to all attendees of the big Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird SPRUNG! Art, Craft & Gaming Show April 20-21 at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, WA! It only lists the locations and names of our vendors that make product SPECIFIC to tabletop gaming – some are local game publishers, some are game retailers, some make the finest gaming accessories you’ve ever seen! With our annual focus on the local tabletop gaming scene, we’re aiming to bring in crowds of game-loving folks so they can discover all sorts of NEW weird stuff! And now, for the first time ever, YOU can be a part of it!

The back of this flyer is blank – for now. But for just $30, YOU can own TWO SQUARE INCHES of that blank space and use it to spread knowledge of your product/business/service to an estimated audience of 5,000 people! Just follow THIS LINK (CLICKY CLICKY CLICK!) to get one before they’re all gone!