My 12 year old son has always loved blue-colored lighting and for years, I wanted to get him the blue/white Lava Lamp. I grew up with the red version and know how awesome they were.

I never pulled the trigger due to the negative reviews and chance that I'd get one that was fatally flawed. After exhausting many other options, this Christmas I decided to get one and buy it early, so I could at least have another roll of the dice and return it with minimal hassle due to the way I've been treated as a Prime subscriber.

Long story short(er): this is exactly the Lava Lamp I remember. The bulb came with a broken filament, but that have may been due to the Holiday Delivery Zoo.

Tip- Order when it's cooler, if you can. I live in the desert and the "do not shake" warnings surely would seem to imply that when the wax is soft due to heat. The wax should look hard and like a trapezoidal puck. I can only imagine if I ordered and it were 120F out, the wax would get soft and jostled around, possibly ruining the item.

At this cost (@$15?), if Amazon will make it right and allow you to return it, I 100% recommend this Lava Lamp. Five stars because it's awesome.

I have ZERO connections to any businesses and just want to help someone who is on the fence like I was for years to have more confidence... perfectly functioning units are out there.

HERE'S HELP! If the wax doesn't move and gets stuck at the top, bottom, middle, right side or left side, just remove the bottle from the base. Put the bottle into a pot with some water in it. Bring water to a boil (watch bottle carefully) once it starts to boil, let the bottle remain in the heated water! (don't turn the stove off) Once you see the wax moving (let it move around for while) then you can turn off the stove and remove bottle from the pot of water! (be careful because it will be hot) Dry the bottle off and the place it back into the lamp base and everything should be fine! You might have to do this from time to time! BUT TRUST ME, IT WORKS!!!!!

Orange lava blue liquid 20oz.
The lava was mostly made of thousands of small bubbles. After running for a few days, the bubbles only increased in number. Directglow responded that this was not a defect and that all new lava lamps have thousands of bubbles in the wax. I have owned and used lava lamps over 20 years. None have had thousands of bubbles in the wax. Diretglow only refunded two-thirds of the price calling the return a buyer's remorse return instead of a return of a defective product. Having looked over the success rate of LavaLite lately, I would reccommend you stay away from Directglow - they won't acknowledge a clearly defective product and keep a third of your purchase price. The only remorse I felt in this purchase is having trusted Directglow to deliver a quality product.
After opening an A-Z claim, they finally refunded the whole price - a week later. Nonetheless, they are alleging a fraudulent claim. Don't waste your time or money and just go to Spencers.

bought again because my parents got me one as a kid and i wanted to buy one again for my room, but here i am as a 2 year old and this still amazes me.

I recently had an older lava lamp I had purchased give out on me and decided to get one to replace it. I'm a bit disappointed with what showed up at my door. I received one that has cloudy water when it should be clear. I've never had one arrive cloudy before, so it's a bit disheartening. See the black wax lamp in my picture.

I look forward to the replacement coming and hope that I can change this review to say I received a good product.

EDIT: Okay, so I received the second one. It too is CLOUDY! The seller should change the title of this item from Lava Lite 2116 14.5-Inch Classic Silver-Based Lava Lamp, Black Wax/Clear Liquid.to Lava Lite 2116 14.5-Inch Classic Silver-Based Lava Lamp, Black Wax/CLOUDY Liquid. Seriously, I understood one lamp, but two!? I lowered my score just because of this incompetence, add to the fact that the packaging on this lamp was allowing the lamp to slam around within the box (no bubble wrap to protect it or keep it stationary).

I will never purchase another lava lamp from this seller, EVER AGAIN. I gave them a chance to make it right and they failed to produce. Instead, I'm getting a refund and will spend my money on other products that come as advertised. NEVER AGAIN Lava Lite!