Three Halls for a Twenty-Dollar Door
The Oddities & Curiosities Expo books Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November 2026 into Halls C-D-E at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland. Day-of tickets cost $20. A child 12 or younger enters free and needs no ticket. Doors run 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days, which is 14 public hours. The venue reports consumer spending of more than $330 million a year as a result of its business.
Take the booking. The case rests on the tour calendar, on an empty hall set that weekend and on the terms the show publishes against the terms it withholds.
What the Gate Publishes
The organiser's FAQ prices the door in one line: cash and credit both accepted, day-of tickets $20. The schedule page adds a qualifier that matters to a venue. Prices vary by country, currency and the venue's own ticketing provider, and the page says Ticketmaster venues can charge more through service and convenience fees.
So $20 is the FAQ day-of figure, and the organiser declines to fix one price across the tour. A venue comparing the next cycle against the show's published door measures a number the counterparty moves city by city.
One more line matters inside the hall. The ticket is valid until scanned. It works on either day, not both. A party that wants two days pays twice, and a child under 13 pays nothing on either day.
Fourteen Hours Against Three Halls
The venue guide publishes the space in square feet. Halls C-D-E together run 162,000 square feet, 305 feet by 530 feet, under a 30-foot ceiling, with a published capacity of 8,820 at rounds or 897 booths of 10 by 10. The building holds 255,000 square feet of column-free hall space, so the booking takes 63.5 percent of it. The show publishes no attendance forecast and no vendor count. The venue publishes no hall rate.
The concession is measurable in time and in space: 162,000 square feet for 14 public hours, and an unknown number of hours either side of the door.
The Saturday belongs to a second show as well. The venue's November feed carries the NW Martial Arts Festival 2026 in Hall A that day, and the association's own outline clocks that meet 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Two all-ages consumer events share one building on a day when the underground garage holds 800 spaces, charges $15 for up to 18 hours with no in-and-out, runs a dynamic $15 to $25 at entry during events, and can reach capacity.
Eighteen loading bays serve the building.
What the Tour Brings Back
The 2026 schedule lists 44 dated stops, and the organiser's own copy calls it a 40-plus city international tour. The live city list puts Seattle on 24 and 25 October, 14 days ahead of Portland, and puts Sacramento on the same weekend of 14 and 15 November, six days behind.
That recurring calendar is the asset. On the published November feed the halls are clear that weekend: the only other booking on the Saturday is Hall A, and the next event to take hall space is Kumoricon on 13 to 15 November, across Halls A-A1-B-C-D-E.
The floor sells twice. Class tickets include admission to the expo, and the USA and Canada class grid runs one 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. taxidermy session, two 10 a.m. to noon sessions and two 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. sessions. No page states a split of that class revenue.
Where the Concession Lands
A $20 door with free entry under 12 earns three halls on two counts a venue can defend in writing. The published November feed puts no other booking into Halls C-D-E that weekend. The tour sets its schedule by year, so the tenant arrives with a calendar already built and returns to fill it.
The concession is specific. 162,000 square feet of hall space, against 8,820 rounds and 897 booths, for 14 public hours. A Saturday shared with a second all-ages event. A garage that the venue itself says can fill. The venue's own pages carry no event rate. Its posted prices are the garage ladder and pay-as-you-go Wi-Fi, and the $20 door belongs to the organiser.
Refuse to concede the reporting. The record carries no attendance count for the stop, no vendor count and no share of the $330 million. A renewal argued on a $20 door and a free child ticket rests on the two numbers the show publishes, and both run against the venue. Send the halls out on a condition that the next cycle reports bodies through the door, halls occupied and class tickets sold.