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The Giant Grande Lava Lamp comes in two colours yellow and blue or yellow and violet. It is truly enormous at 27" and is guaranteed to be a focal point in your room. It is not called "giant" and "grande" for nothing!
My lamp is a yellow and blue model. Although the product description ... Read review
Advantages: Huge. Soothing. Good value. Disadvantages: Takes forever to heat up.
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The Giant Grande Lava Lamp comes in two colours yellow and blue or yellow and violet. It is truly enormous at 27" and is guaranteed to be a focal point in your room. It is not called "giant" and "grande" for nothing!
My lamp is a yellow and blue model. Although the product description says "yellow", in fact the effect produced by the lamp is green lava on a blue background. ...not for people who wish to be environmentally friendly. Due to its size, it needs a hefty 100W bulb to heat up the liquid and even then takes AGES (at least an hour) to get the lava going. Once it does begin to work, however, the lava effect is most unusual and hypnotic.
Unlike the pictures above, or any other lava lamp I have seen, the wax seems to prefer to form a huge column, rising and falling from the top to the bottom of the ... more
A lava lamp is, in principle, very simple. It consists of a lamp, which heats up a glass bulb filled with a waxy solid and a liquid. These cannot mix together and must have very similar densities. As the solid heats up, its density is lowered, so it rises. This cools it down and it then falls to the bottom of the lamp, creating a strangely soothing effect. In practice, making one yourself would involve messing about with expensive and perhaps flammable chemicals, so I wouldn't bother trying. It is much easier just to buy one yourself.
The Giant Grande Lava Lamp comes in two colours yellow and blue or yellow and violet. It is truly enormous at 27" and is guaranteed to be a focal point in your room. It is not called "giant" and "grande" for nothing!
My lamp is a yellow and blue model. Although the product description says "yellow", in fact the effect produced by the lamp is green lava on a blue background.
Being so enormous, the lava lamp is not for people who wish to be environmentally friendly. Due to its size, it needs a hefty 100W bulb to heat up the liquid and even then takes AGES (at least an hour) to get the lava going. Once it does begin to work, however, the lava effect is most unusual and hypnotic.
Unlike the pictures above, or any other lava lamp I have seen, the wax seems to prefer to form a huge column, rising and falling from the top to the bottom of the lamp. It occasionally produces globules which bud off and rise to the surface, but mostly you get a column of molten lava. Whether my lamp is typical in this respect, I don't know - but either way, it still prodices a soothing and hypnotic glow.
This lamp is really good value at £40 (I got mine from Argos). it is not made by Mathmos (the original manufacturers of lava lamps) which may explain why it is relatively cheap. The build is, however, of very good quality, although there were a few bubbles in the glass of the bulb, but these add to the effect when the lamp is lit.
I wouldn't bother even attempting to buy this by mail order or over the internet, as the postage and packing costs must be horrendous. The lamp weighs a ton and would cost as much to post as it does to buy.
There is hardly anything to mention about the user's manual - just the usual notes about cleaning and how to clean up any spillages if it happens to become broken. In practice, as long as you are careful not to trip up over a three foot high lamp, there shouldnt be any problems. The lamp is very sturdy and the glass is thick, so it shouldn't break very easily. The base is well constructed and holds the whole thing in place securely. No maintenance is required, except an occasional dusting and replacement of the bulb (uses a standard 100W bulb which is easily replacable).
Overall, I would recommend this lamp, with a few shortcomings. It doesn't seem to produce lava globules as much as I would have hoped, but it is still an interesting and very pretty effect. be prepared to be patient though when using it!
Advantages: Brilliant dominating point of decoration in any room Disadvantages: Takes a while to heat up
One of my favourite purchases of all time, I think. I've always liked lava lamps but never seen one of such size (within affordability anyway).
Being of such a size, they do require a high voltage light bulb which uses a large amount of electricity. Also, the lamps do take more than two hours to heat up and flow properly. But I think they're well worth the wait.
They only come in two colour options: purple/red and blue/green. They could do with ...
TomGreen 17.02.2008
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Advantages: Cute, Entertaining Disadvantages: Get hot
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. lava lamps are so cute, cool and are so pretty and are the perfect finishing touch to your room x x x I always love to just sit and watch lava lamps x there so entertaining to watch and look at x
I personally love the ones with bubbles but they take a really long time to melt and get started!
where as the glitter lamps take much less time to get started and they are just so cute ( the way they sparkle ...
Abigail_pinny 30.01.2009
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