Can someone please explain Mathmos' Metallic to me?

[Fernando Nicotera]

I don't understand how does it look and work, are there some videos/photos online?

[lampfancy]

Do you mean the metallic Astro/ Astrobaby lamps that appeared around the late 90s/ early 00s?

As far as I know they worked more or less the same as any other lamp, albeit presumably with a tweaked formula, there was a very fine glitter powder set in a translucent-ish wax that created a molten metallic look when running. Was a nice idea, though they weren't to everyone's taste, they had a noticeably slower flow than standard lamps. Apparently they suffered issues with the liquid clouding so they were discontinued after only a short production run.

Found a video here

(The current metallics on the other hand are just basically a standard lamp with a semi-transparent mirrored coating on the glass, so the contents are only visible when the lamp is lit)

[Fernando Nicotera]

1. No, i meant the metallic coating One... I mean, is there a video that shows it in function? Why aren't these so popular?

[Tim Bartlett]

Yeah I am also interested to see what they are like. Surprising there appear to be no videos anywhere, and I’ve never seen any on eBay.

[Fernando Nicotera]

Doesn anyone have pictures of it? Really strange that an innovative lamp doesn't get much attention here...

[Elias]

You can find pictures of it by typing "astro metallic" in the search bar on the top left of the website.

There are allso multiple videos on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxM4NvlEfzg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC5RdmZEiqs

[Tim Bartlett]

Thanks, just stumbled across those too...

Elias said:

You can find pictures of it by typing "astro metallic" in the search bar on the top left of the website.

There are allso multiple videos on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxM4NvlEfzg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC5RdmZEiqs

[Fernando Nicotera]

Oh, thank you! Nice lamp! I wonder why these aren't so poular... Probably one of the reasons is that you can't buy the bottle separately
Elias said:

You can find pictures of it by typing "astro metallic" in the search bar on the top left of the website.

There are allso multiple videos on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxM4NvlEfzg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC5RdmZEiqs

[ImMelting]

Found this review a while back. its worth a look if your planning on getting one as it does have some issues:

http://robin0377.blogspot.com/2017/12/mathmos-astro-metallic-lava-l...

[Fernando Nicotera]

I've read it but it says that the newer ones are more visible... Like the ones in the video i suppose. I'll have to decide between one of these and a telstar

ImMelting said:

Found this review a while back. its worth a look if your planning on getting one as it does have some issues:

http://robin0377.blogspot.com/2017/12/mathmos-astro-metallic-lava-l...

[ImMelting]

Yes it seems that the newer ones are clearer but the coating is still very fragile and scratches easily at least at the time they posted that review.

Fernando Nicotera said:

I've read it but it says that the newer ones are more visible... Like the ones in the video i suppose. I'll have to decide between one of these and a telstar

[Christian]

https://youtu.be/pKzGpZWSG9U

[Fernando Nicotera]

Is it the orange colour? Also, how does it look while turned off?

Christian said:

https://youtu.be/pKzGpZWSG9U