Lavathe Original 16.3-Inch Silver Base Lamp with Yellow Wax in Purple Liquid, Yellow / Purple / Silver

This lamp is absolutely what I had both hoped for AND remembered. The fluid is crystal clear, the color is phenomenal. I have the purple fluid with the yellow lava. The colors are so vibrant!!! They go from bright yellow at the base all the way to a deep pink/red to a deep fushia/violet toward the top of the lamp as the lava move away from the light in the base. I had a hard time falling asleep as a teenager, and 30 years ago I had a Lava Lamp with this color combination on my bed stand. Today, I am enjoying it again! If you want an analogous spectrum which includes yellow, orange, fushia, red, and violet, choose this combination. I think the reason you get so many gradient colors that fall between yellow and purple on the orange side of the color wheel is because you have the complementary base colors of yellow and purple working here.Just be soooo careful and handle the box and the lamp once removed from the box---very delicately. Don't shake it or move the lamp when the lava is flowing or you'll get cloudy fluid or "air bubbles" in the lava. Think of it as "china" that you don't want to break, and give it a permanent home and leave it there (I'm sure having a good UPS delivery person probably makes a difference too!) If this review gets read by the Lava Lamp folks, please consider some additional combinations such as cerulean blue fluid, with yellow/orange lava which will produce colors in the blue-green spectrum (BEAUTIFUL!), or dark blue fluid with lime green lava which would produce colors in the blue/greens that would be GORGEOUS--like the ocean! If you use the lighter colors for the lava, the illumination from the bulb will cause the lava to glow and the gradients to get deeper in color as they move farther away from the light and into the fluid's color---all based on the Tertiary color wheel. CALL ME!!! Yes, I would love to work for you! I will set up a lab in my house and help you work all of this out! haha (I am a graphic designer and a painter who mixes her own colors :) I just LOVE these lamps. They are a real delight to me. I'd love to be the one to mix the color combinations and see what I could bring to life! I've got so many ideas!Linda Nelson, Pixelberrypie.com

So much negative stuff on the Amazon Lava Lamps. First time purchasing a Lava Lite here and I'm super impressed. I received this lamp at 10:00 am today. Globe is clean and clear! Setup took less than 2 minutes... a bulb, set glob on stand, plug in, turn on, add cap. This was the first run for the new lamp and it took just over 2 hours to get the flow going. Lava looks amazing! Closer to the bottom of the globe the lava looks orange-ish yellow-ish. As it flows to the top, it becomes more neon RED. This has such a warming and unique feel to it.Growing up as a boy in the 80's, mom always had the lava lamp on and running. This is the size of lamp she had, and I have always wanted one like it. I have 3 other lamps; two 14-inch globe, and a 19 year old 17-inch globe (which started my collection in 1998). I have read that after around 2007 or so, the lamps were manufactured in China. They don't make um like they used to. I believe this is correct since my old lamp is going strong for nearly 20 years. Oh, and mom's lamp was around since around 1978 or so?Pay attention to today's globes and take care of them. Do not run them excessively (over 8 hours). Only use the approved/specified bulb. DO NO SHAKE when HOT! I have had good success so far. There are also ways to clear up a cloudy globe. Do a wee bit of research with google to help you if you run into problems! I will say I was disappointed and returned only 1 globe in the past 20 years, due to excessive bubbles in the lava (the globs looked like swiss cheese there were so many bubbles).Ordering from Amazon was painless. Very glad I made the choice to select this globe. I'm into my 4th hour of enjoyment, and I expect many many more. If things should change, I will edit my review to reflect so. Thank you for a great items :D

I ordered this for my daughter for Christmas because for some reason, she saw a picture of a lava lamp and really wanted one. Now you could spend up for a Mathmos and go through the trouble to import one in from the UK but I'm telling you you really don't need to. Bottom line is this unit is offered at a nice price, is attractive, and functions exactly as advertised and hoped given the really simple care it requires.First of all, the liquid was crystal clear. The issues with the cloudy salt water seems to have much decreased over the last few years. And liquid and wax colors are quite vibrant. Second, if you give it sufficient time to heat up, it'll work just like you hope.That said, there are a couple of important points to remember.1. Don't shake the bottle at any time, whether the wax is cold and solid or melted and flowing. If you shake it cold, the puck or pieces will leave waxy marks on the inside of the bottle. Shaken hot, you'll make a million little wax droplets. Neither situation is fatal. If you have wax marks, simply wait for the wax to melt then gently tip the bottle over and roll it slowly so the melted wax blob picks up these marks. Give it a moment to do so. If shaken hot, just let the lamp run and in 30 minutes or so, all the small droplets will have coalesced back into the main blob.2. If there is cold wax stuck at the top of the bottle that simply won't get warm enough to melt and combine with the main blob, use a heat gun set at around 70% (same setting you would use to shrink wrap or window film) to warm the bottle wall at the neck near the cap to get it to melt and drip down. Go slowly and be gentle. This will clear every last drop of wax to join with the big blob.I have not tested it running for more than 5 or 6 hours but in that time frame, it is truly delightful. As good as goldfish.