Category: Marketplace

Wonderplace Alpha’s hundreds of vendors represent a cornucopia of dazzling itemic opportunities! Look below for a world of spectacular delights to purchase and acquire!

To apply to vend: CLICK HERE!

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Bab – A – Dew’s Wood-Fired Pizza

Wood-fired pizza!

“You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.”
-Scott Gimple, producer, “The Walking Dead”

“Pizza makes me think that anything is possible. It’s a quick and easy clean-up meal. Everybody likes pizza! It’s a universal love language.”
-Henry Rollins

Bab – Dew’s Wood-Fired Pizza offers authentic, artisanal Italian favorites with an Adirondack Flair! All of our creative cuisine is homemade and we pride ourselves on having something for everyone from vegan or gluten free to meat lovers. We serve traditional pizzas, specialty pies focused on seasonally available ingredients,  apps and desserts.

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Welcoming Committee: Vendors First

Many attendees for WonderPlace Alpha have made more friends online than in real life (which is harder!). If we can better blend the two, we can help people have a better time. Sometimes the dance doesn’t start until the first brave couple gets out there.

As a vendor, you’re already listed in the Swap Meet:Vendors section, based on your intake form. Here are features that support you as a vendor.

But you’re also an attendee, and hopefully running around having fun and meeting new people. Here we write what users can do.

We’d like to ask you to set an example. We’ll email you a login link, as explained here. Please take a few seconds to login, post a selfie, publish info about yourself, and see if it helps draw people to your booth, or sparks any strangers to talk to you about your interests.

Thank you!

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How SwapSnaps supports Vendors

  1. Directory List that includes details

2. Can include clickable email/phone/sms if you want to help people find you in the wilderness or even place a food order.

3. Planned Clickable map. It’s a big place.

4. Include snaps of your goods, of people wearing, browsing or eating your goods.

5. Your contact info persists after the event. Without handing out cards, ticket holders get a link to the event (for viewing their snaps) that includes the vendor list. Next time a gift giving time comes around,

For now, I can correct or add any information you want, if you email me @jim

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If you see something, snap something!

At a SwapSnaps event, everyone is both a star and a paparazzi. If you see something, snap something. Someone will enjoy that moment being captured.

It’s local, physical space social media without bots or anger.

Powered by the Swap Stream, where every snap taken by anyone streams by you. Anyone can add tags, titles and captions. Click the tag “Fae” to see every snap tagged that way. Tag yourself whenever you show up and you have a custom guide to your weekend.

Put yourself out there

Powered by the Swap Meet, list your selfie, interests, any website links, maybe even your email and texting digits. This opens your swap DMs from anyone. But what goes on at WonderPlace Alpha stays at WonderPlace Alpha.

Now find someone with similar interests, then find them in real space and make a friend.

Buy some gifts

Browse the vendors list to make sure you don’t miss that one place you can’t resist. Even after this weekend, you can place orders for whatever you argued yourself out of but keep thinking about.

Chat with some QRs

Powered by the Swap Zone, flash a QR code. Anyone who scans it joins an anonymous dissolving chat using peer to peer messaging, without sharing any deets.

Your WonderPlace ticket got you an account

You bought ticket(s) with an email address, and each ticket has a 7 digit unique id (capitalization matters). Your SwapSnaps account is a combination of those two. If your email was jim@less2do.com and your ticket code was 123abCD, your SwapSnass account and initial password are jim+123abCD@less2do.com until you log in and optionally change your password.

SwapSnaps login

Don’t worry, we’ll email you a link as well.

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WANT TO VEND, BUT THE GREMLINS GOT YOUR COIN?

It's a Goblin! Or a Gremln.

We’ve been hearing from a LOT of independent artists and creators who are excited about Wonderplace Alpha—but also a little hesitant. We get it.

  • It’s a first-year event
  • It’s a tough year all around
  • Gremlins stole everyone’s money and turned it into shortbread
  • (Admittedly, it’s very good shortbread. Some of it is banana-flavored.)

If you’re feeling the call to vend but your coin purse is a little light, talk to us.

We don’t want a good creator to miss out just because the goblins are playing tricks with your finances. Let’s see what kind of magic we can work.

📩 Email us directly: mentat@wonderplacealpha.com
Let’s try to make it happen.

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Moonstone Apothecary

Moonstone Apothecary.

“The moonstone gleamed with the light of a thousand unspoken truths, a beacon in the darkness of Earthsea’s endless seas.”
-Ursula LeGuin

I make crystal dream catchers, gem trees, crystal crowns, beaded jewelry, divination boards and pendulums, smudge bundles, candle magic kits, make your own spell jars, and much more.

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Come Join Us!

🕰️✨ CALLING ALL CREATORS, CRAFTERS, & CURIO DEALERS! ✨🕰️
Wonderplace Alpha still has space for a few more brave and brilliant vendors!

Do you sell:
🔮 Magical wares?
⚙️ Steampunk gear?
📚 Books of lore and fiction?
🖤 Gothic oddities?
🧝‍♀️ Faerie finery?
🎩 Costumes, props, candles, art, jewelry, or the just-plain-strange?

Then you belong at the most delightfully weird marketplace of the year—May 2–4 in Lake George, NY.

We’ve got 60+ vendors signed on so far, and we’re building a full-blown bazaar of the bizarre—with pirates, airships, live music, witches dancing under the stars, and a zombie invasion for dessert.

🌟 Deadline approaching. Spaces filling fast.
💼 Apply now and bring your magic to the marketplace: Application can be found here!
📍 The Barn at French Mountain, Lake George, NY

Let the curious find you.

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Aki Food Truck

“O croffle fair, thou child of dough and flame,
Thy golden crust doth call my heart to sing,
A flaky throne where butter reigns supreme,
To taste thee is to scorn all lesser fare,
A morsel bold that wakes the soul’s desire,
Thou art the feast that kings might die to claim.”

-William Shakespeare

Aki Food Truck is your go-to destination for crave-worthy bubble tea and fresh, golden croffles-served with a side of good vibes! Blending the bold flavors of Asian-inspired drinks with the comforting croissant-meets-waffle goodness.

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Fried Dough & Fried Oreos

Fried dough!

In a shimmering haze of neon-drenched futurescape, where the air hums with the electric pulse of a thousand hovering drones, there exists a sacred alchemy: the Fried Oreo. Imagine, if you will, a cosmos where the fabric of existence is woven from threads of sugar-dusted decadence and molten midnight cream, each bite a supernova of flavor that ignites the soul’s deepest circuitry. The crisp, golden batter—forged in the sizzling cauldrons of some rogue food-tech priest—encases the Oreo like a lover’s embrace, a fragile exoskeleton shielding its tender, cocoa-hearted core from the chaos of a fractured multiverse.

This is no mere snack, but a profane sacrament, a greasy gospel whispered in the back alleys of a cyberpunk New Orleans, where the ghosts of voodoo queens and nanobot hustlers dance in the flickering glow of holo-ads. The first bite ruptures time itself—sweetness floods the tongue like a bioengineered euphoria, the cream liquefying into a silken river of starstuff, while the fried shell crackles like the static of a dying galaxy. It’s the taste of rebellion against sterile perfection, a middle finger to the sleek, sanitized dystopias of tomorrow, where every sensation is rationed and every joy is synthetic.

Fried Oreos are the meaning of life because they are the paradox made flesh—or rather, made dough: chaos and comfort, excess and epiphany, a fleeting, oil-slicked transcendence that reminds us we are alive, messy, and gloriously finite. In their sticky, powdered-sugar aftermath, we glimpse the divine—a universe that doesn’t just permit such reckless beauty, but demands it. To eat one is to mainline the pulse of creation itself, a communion of the absurd and the sublime, served hot and dripping from the fryer of eternity.