They also made great pretend/play jousting lances, though all the insects that were dead inside of it would get all over the place as you swung those things around, but still, good times (at least until you got caught doing that).

And changing the bulb on one of those that newly burned out was like trying to work with lava.

I saw one of the bulbs burn out once, four inch flames straight out of the top.

Never had one. Didn't know anyone who had one. Is this an American thing?

Remember? I still have it!

My sister and I once caught a paper airplane on fire from one of these, got scortchmarks on the couch under it

Well i walked over to the other room to check but mine doesn’t have that bulb/disk on the pole

If you look up The Sharper Image in an encyclopedia, it has a picture of this lamp and a vibrating pillow.

I still have one

I'm pretty sure the lamp my parents had in the late 90s/early 2000s was the one they moved into the house with in the late 70s, there was none of this fanciness in our house

I have two of these, they stopped working but I can’t bring myself to throw them away.

I do not. I lived in a house that had ceiling lights and chandeliers in every room, so we didn't have any lamps other than a couple desk lamps.

I remember it being a PITFA to change the bulbs, though. Two of the chandeliers were in awful places. 1 was at the top of the central ceiling which was essentially 3 stories from the floor and the other was directly over the stairs, where you couldn't really position a ladder safely.