Vanory Crystal Ball - Galaxy Balls for Kids with LED Lamp Base, Clear 80mm(3 inch) Galaxy Glass Art for Kids Birthday Gifts, Teacher Gifts, Valentine's Day and Birthday

My son is into the planets, so for Christmas I have been looking for all things solar system! It's heavy and solid and the planets look just the listing. Love the hint of color on the planets under the base that lights up! This is perfect!!

This was a lovely thing but I had to return because it was. glass and it was for a 7 year old

It's good.

The media could not be loaded. A two piece unit consisting of a trapezium base and a Faux-Crystal/ solid glass globe with different sized colored balls inside, representing the planets in our solar system, orbiting the sun. (minus ex-planet Pluto) With the small size of the globe, (about the size of a standard baseball?), the detailing is minimal & simplistic, but for me, this is a very cool desk decoration and conversation starter. The operation is very simple which is good, as there were NO INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED! Through trial & error, I learned that you turn on the LED light function by simply just twisting/screwing-in the tiny battery tube into the LED mechanism in the bottom of the base. The light cycles through various flashing colors until you unscrew it to turn it off. The base was initially confusing as I wasn't sure which side the globe was supposed to rest on--as both the top and bottom have a 'concave depression' to cradle the globe. But the globe is meant to sit on the closed smallest end of the trapezium base (the opposite end where battery & LED device fits) The globe is just meant to rest precariously in the small smooth polished depression of the base--but it's not secure at all! So if it's in a high-traffic area with pets, children, etc.,--it will easily fall off the base and break, if even gently bumped! What i like to do to showcase this to friends, is turn the light function on, then "manually" give the globe a twist with my hand, and make it 'SPIN' on the base (like a child's 'toy top') simulating a spiralling solar system that will spin for about 60 seconds. Also--in a darkened room, the globe acts as a kind of 'weird lens' funnelling/projecting the LED lights through it and onto the ceiling in various simple, small, but beautiful, circular light patterns.

Very cool gift, but the space between the battery and the screw top is too wide so it doesn’t stay on. We used a small piece of foil and stuck it in there to fill the space and it works, but it’s disappointing we had to do that in the first place. We kept it anyway as it still looks cool even when it’s not lit up.

So I purchased this for my 8 year old boy who absolutely loves space. This was a big hit for him. The planet layout is nice and as pictured. It’s doesn’t do anything like spin and it comes in two pieces. The glass ball sits in a glass base that has an led light in it that changes colors. The cool part it that the light will also shine onto your ceiling which makes a nice night light if you like that. Heavy and durable. A little high priced for what it is but it doesn’t break the bank either. Good gift for those little space lovers.

Item is small but is very interesting to look at if you like the solar system. Turning on the lighting element is a little sensitive but my 7 year old grandson manages to work it every night.

Extremely disappointed in the performance of this scam product. It looks nice but is totally unsatisfactory as a night light. There are no instructions and operation of the light is not intuitive. The light is quite dim and the batteries lasted less than 2 hours. Oh, and good luck finding replacements for the sealed 3 pack, hearing aid size batteries, markings are all in Asian script. I purchased this in November as a Christmas gift so it’s beyond the return policy limit. Just another rip off product.