An alien cosmos you can actually smoke out of
The Space Odyssey in 3D is the flagship statement from Milkyway Glass's Space Odyssey Collection: an 11-inch beaker bong wrapped in deep, sculpted sci-fi artwork — alien worlds, strange planets, and cosmic detail rendered across the glass in high-relief 3D — with a Collins perc doing the functional work inside. Priced at $189.99 direct from Milkyway, it sits exactly where art glass gets interesting: unmistakably a display piece, but specced like a workhorse.
Clear, smoke, and slime-green tones move through the design, the beaker base keeps it planted, and the 14mm joint means every bowl and accessory you already own still fits. Milkyway released this piece in February 2023 as version 1.0 of the design, and it remains one of the most detailed production bongs the brand ships. If your shelf needs one conversation-starter that also clears like a champ, this is a shortlist piece.
Specs
- Height: 11 inches (28 cm)
- Weight: 0.65 kg — substantial, planted feel for the size
- Joint: 14 mm
- Glass thickness: 5 mm tube, 15 mm base
- Percolation: Collins perc plus classic beaker water volume
- Colorway: Clear, Smoke, and Slime accents over 3D-sculpted artwork
- Includes: matching bowl
- Collection: Space Odyssey Collection, Version 1.0, released February 2023
- Price: $189.99, in stock direct from Milkyway Glass at time of sourcing
This one is for the smoker whose piece is part of the room. If your setup lives on open shelving, gets photographed, or anchors the sesh table when people come through, the Space Odyssey earns its spot before you ever load a bowl — the 3D relief work reads from across the room and rewards close inspection the way good album art does.
Functionally it suits everyday flower smokers who want more diffusion than a bare beaker: the Collins perc breaks up the pull through the water for a smoother, cooler draw, while the beaker base holds enough volume that you are not constantly refilling. The 11-inch height is the practical middle ground — big enough to perform, small enough to handle and stash.
And because the joint is a standard 14mm, collectors can run their own bowls, ash catchers, and accessories without adapters. Not ideal for the road; this is a home-base piece, and it knows it.
Production art glass usually forces a trade: you either get the artwork or you get the engineering. Milkyway's whole reputation is built on refusing that trade, and the Space Odyssey is the collection's proof. The sculpted 3D detailing is not a decal or a print — it is dimensional work in the glass itself, which is why the piece has the heft it does at 0.65 kg with a 15mm-thick base.
Under the art, the fundamentals are dialed: 5mm tube walls for durability, a Collins perc for genuine added diffusion rather than decorative bubbling, and an included bowl so the piece works out of the box. At $189.99 it undercuts what most one-off worked glass costs by a wide margin while looking like nothing else in the room. That combination — legitimate art presence, daily-driver function, defensible price — is exactly what separates a featured product from filler.
There is a reason Milkyway pieces keep showing up in serious collections: they photograph like customs and perform like production glass.
Milkyway Glass has carved out one of the most recognizable identities in American production glass by going all-in on narrative collections — cosmic voyages, biomechanical worlds, mythology — executed with a sculptural depth that made the brand's look instantly identifiable.
The Space Odyssey Collection is the purest expression of the house style: Milkyway frames it as a voyage deep into the cosmos in search of aliens and strange planets, and the glass delivers that brief literally, wrapping the beaker in an explorable alien landscape. That storytelling instinct matters to the culture right now.
Glass buyers increasingly collect the way sneakerheads do — by line, by drop, by design language — and Milkyway's versioned releases (this is Space Odyssey v1.0, February 2023) feed exactly that collector behavior. For the High Rise catalog, which already features Milkyway's Nectar beaker, the Space Odyssey in 3D is the natural flagship-tier addition: the piece you show someone when they ask why production art glass deserves the name.