About Lava Lite

1960 - 1990

Lava lamps invented. XXXXXX lines introduced.

1990 - 2003

The 1990s saw the birth of many new models from LavaLite. They introduced the Elec-Trick lineup where they paired colored bases usually with a corresponding color globe.

The Swirl series was introduced with blue, red, green and purple colored bases in a psychedelic swirl paint job and were also made in rare Haze Swirl models.

The Safari series was added with four different animal pattern colored bases, some of the Snake models came with the ultra-rare brown colored wax globe.

The Icons made their way onto the scene with ceramic bases depicting anything from a Devil to Santa Claus.

The Aristocrat and Century lines saw the introduction of silver and black colored bases to go with the normal gold color and a new line of globe colors.The Aristocrat base was used for the Americanna model where a American flag wraps around the base and was also used in the special edition "2000" lamp which was chromed and featured a "2000" stamped out of the base cone.

Several promotional lamps were also available like Camel and Budweiser and some were geared towards movies such as Austin Powers and TV shows like That 70's Show.

The Wizard was introduced which was a similar shape to the old Carlisles, but the new Wizard had stars and moon holes stamped in the base. The Wizard was available in black, silver, red and blue base colors and a whole new lineup of colored glitter globes. The 250 ounce Giant was released in five globe colors available on black or silver bases. LavaLite had a special limited run of 35 lamps on the 4-foot tall Humongo model which was 1,280 ounces (10 gallons!). The liquid wave machines saw an introduction of several new colors and new model sizes.

2003 - Current

From 2003 until now, Lava Lite has consistently produced very low-quality lamps. When manufacturing moved to China, all models were discontinued and a new line was introduced including the Accent, Royal, Bob Marley, and etc. The failure rate among the China-made lamps is very high (probably close to 90%). Issues range from cloudy liquid, bad flow or now flow at all, poor quality glass, or damaged bases.

As of November 2010, Lava Lite claims to have fixed the quality control issues, but this has yet to be seen. Lava Lite's most recent line of lamps are still arriving at peoples homes cloudy and with flow problems.