New Mathmos lamp announced...any ideas? - Oozing Goo - The Lava Lamp Syndicate2024-03-29T15:54:46Zhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/forum/topics/new-mathmos-lamp-announced-any-ideas?id=1566398%3ATopic%3A863647&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThanks Noz Noz said:
There a…tag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2022-10-17:1566398:Comment:8648572022-10-17T12:28:28.762ZLava_Head_UKhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/LavaHead
<p>Thanks Noz<br></br> <br></br> <cite>Noz said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://oozinggoo.ning.com/forum/topics/new-mathmos-lamp-announced-any-ideas?commentId=1566398%3AComment%3A865118&xg_source=msg_com_forum#1566398Comment865118"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>There are some scathing reviews on trust pilot.,and Mathmos haven't posted any reviews on feefo since 3rd September on the british website.. So I guess must be quite bad. </p>
<p>There's a mixed bunch of reviews on the German…</p>
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<p>Thanks Noz<br/> <br/> <cite>Noz said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://oozinggoo.ning.com/forum/topics/new-mathmos-lamp-announced-any-ideas?commentId=1566398%3AComment%3A865118&xg_source=msg_com_forum#1566398Comment865118"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>There are some scathing reviews on trust pilot.,and Mathmos haven't posted any reviews on feefo since 3rd September on the british website.. So I guess must be quite bad. </p>
<p>There's a mixed bunch of reviews on the German version of their website. </p>
<p>I simply don't like the design so haven't purchased one, but have been closely watching for feedback on these. </p>
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</blockquote> Hi, does anyone have any phot…tag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2022-10-16:1566398:Comment:8650172022-10-16T18:29:29.870ZLava_Head_UKhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/LavaHead
<p>Hi, does anyone have any photos of the Rokit and are you happy with your purchase? </p>
<p>Hi, does anyone have any photos of the Rokit and are you happy with your purchase? </p> Will send you a mail later, h…tag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2022-10-01:1566398:Comment:8643602022-10-01T17:26:00.222ZArnehttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/kalel
<p>Will send you a mail later, have to repair a top end cd player which spit its lens at me when opening the sled...pisses me off so much, has to be done before I throw this piece of s...out of the window!</p>
<p>Will send you a mail later, have to repair a top end cd player which spit its lens at me when opening the sled...pisses me off so much, has to be done before I throw this piece of s...out of the window!</p> Hello Arne,
Again, thanks ver…tag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2022-10-01:1566398:Comment:8646172022-10-01T16:16:10.380ZCAPTAIN SKYWALKERhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/CAPTAINSKYWALKER
<p>Hello Arne,</p>
<p>Again, thanks very much for your compliments.</p>
<p>Selling a kidney is a bold step to get what you want but you may want to rethink selling them both!</p>
<p>The Orbiter took a great many man hours (and a lot more material than the rockets!) and was only intended to be a one-off, just to see if it could be done.</p>
<p>I mocked it up with cardboard and silver duct tape to see if I could get the proportions right and see if the resulting mess looked anything like a real…</p>
<p>Hello Arne,</p>
<p>Again, thanks very much for your compliments.</p>
<p>Selling a kidney is a bold step to get what you want but you may want to rethink selling them both!</p>
<p>The Orbiter took a great many man hours (and a lot more material than the rockets!) and was only intended to be a one-off, just to see if it could be done.</p>
<p>I mocked it up with cardboard and silver duct tape to see if I could get the proportions right and see if the resulting mess looked anything like a real shuttle. Then I began work on the real thing.</p>
<p>I hadn't intended to make another, mainly because I didn't think anyone would pay the price that it would have to be for the amount of man-hours put into it.</p>
<p>That said, if a Texas oil baron or rich Arab prince really wanted one, I could be persuaded to sell this one and then make myself another (Oh no, not weeks of polishing again!)</p>
<p>I smile every time I walk into the living room and see it!</p>
<p>If you want to contact me (in fact, if anyone wants to contact me about any of my creations) you can reach me at; lightspeed-rockets@hotmail.com and discuss things.</p>
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<p>Btw is the orbiter a one off or would it make sense to sell a kidney or two so I can eventually affford an example of it. Actually (IMO) thats the only lunar sized lamp which is really up there with the original...absolutely impressive work!!</p>
<p>Btw is the orbiter a one off or would it make sense to sell a kidney or two so I can eventually affford an example of it. Actually (IMO) thats the only lunar sized lamp which is really up there with the original...absolutely impressive work!!</p> Hello Arne,
Thank you for the…tag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2022-10-01:1566398:Comment:8646162022-10-01T14:38:59.920ZCAPTAIN SKYWALKERhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/CAPTAINSKYWALKER
<p>Hello Arne,</p>
<p>Thank you for the kind words about my Orbiter, much appreciated.</p>
<p>I love your suggestion that they just gave up half way through designing the Rokit (which strongly resembles my early steam punk lamp anyway) when they cast eyes on the Orbiter!</p>
<p>(I'd be more than happy to give them some ideas, ha-ha!)</p>
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<p>Here's a pic of my Orbiter with a Mathmos Lunar (to show scale.)…</p>
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<p>Hello Arne,</p>
<p>Thank you for the kind words about my Orbiter, much appreciated.</p>
<p>I love your suggestion that they just gave up half way through designing the Rokit (which strongly resembles my early steam punk lamp anyway) when they cast eyes on the Orbiter!</p>
<p>(I'd be more than happy to give them some ideas, ha-ha!)</p>
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<p>Here's a pic of my Orbiter with a Mathmos Lunar (to show scale.)</p>
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<p>And one of the Lunar with my two Saturn V prototypes that shows off the aerofoil wing shapes...</p>
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<p></p> Somehow it makes me a bit sad…tag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2022-09-30:1566398:Comment:8646052022-09-30T10:15:27.037ZArnehttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/kalel
<p>Somehow it makes me a bit sad that I can't say anything good about mathmos lately, they used to be such a cool company but for whatever reason they seem to have lost they sense of style. I'd rather get a bullet replica than whats supposed to be a rocket with its crooked cap and dwarfy legs. May they saw skywalkera orbiter and gave up in the middle of the design process as they didnt see a way to even remotely compete with that anyway.</p>
<p>Somehow it makes me a bit sad that I can't say anything good about mathmos lately, they used to be such a cool company but for whatever reason they seem to have lost they sense of style. I'd rather get a bullet replica than whats supposed to be a rocket with its crooked cap and dwarfy legs. May they saw skywalkera orbiter and gave up in the middle of the design process as they didnt see a way to even remotely compete with that anyway.</p> Maybe the lack of "refinement…tag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2022-09-25:1566398:Comment:8642852022-09-25T22:01:57.113Zandy rosshttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/andyross
<p>Maybe the lack of "refinement" in the Rokit is a tip of the hat from Mathmos to Captain S and his Starfleet - something along the lines of - if you want price-point, stripped-down big display lamps, we can do them too...</p>
<p>But I agree, the Captain S versions have got a certain stylish simplicity that the Rokit just doesn't</p>
<p>(I'd forgotten the Bullet... you're right, MH...)</p>
<p>Maybe the lack of "refinement" in the Rokit is a tip of the hat from Mathmos to Captain S and his Starfleet - something along the lines of - if you want price-point, stripped-down big display lamps, we can do them too...</p>
<p>But I agree, the Captain S versions have got a certain stylish simplicity that the Rokit just doesn't</p>
<p>(I'd forgotten the Bullet... you're right, MH...)</p> The resemblance to the home-m…tag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2022-09-25:1566398:Comment:8643952022-09-25T18:24:15.294Zlampfancyhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/lampfancy
<p>The resemblance to the home-made lamps probably says it all, not to take away from the makers of those, which are interesting in their own right, but you would hope for more refinement from a company with 60-odd years’ of manufacturing experience to draw from.</p>
<p>The resemblance to the home-made lamps probably says it all, not to take away from the makers of those, which are interesting in their own right, but you would hope for more refinement from a company with 60-odd years’ of manufacturing experience to draw from.</p> Hello,
Thank you for your com…tag:oozinggoo.ning.com,2022-09-25:1566398:Comment:8643032022-09-25T18:08:50.672ZCAPTAIN SKYWALKERhttps://oozinggoo.ning.com/profile/CAPTAINSKYWALKER
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hello,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thank you for your complimentary words about my rockets, much appreciated.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Love the way you've spliced pictures together to show all nine in a line up, very impressed!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Many thanks for that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I did have a photoshoot set up to do this but I'm still waiting for it to be…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hello,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thank you for your complimentary words about my rockets, much appreciated.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Love the way you've spliced pictures together to show all nine in a line up, very impressed!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Many thanks for that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I did have a photoshoot set up to do this but I'm still waiting for it to be professionally "joined up" to make a picture like the one you've done! (I didn't have enough bottles to take a picture of them all in one go and the studio wasn't wide enough either!)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I have to say, I'm impressed to see them all together, many thanks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design consultant for Mathmos... I wish!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Many thanks,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Captain Skywalker</span></p>
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