This review discusses the fundamentals of magnetic field assisted fluidization and relevant hydrodynamics problems of gas fluidized beds with a batch solids mode. The data treatment and the analysis of the phenomena published in various sources over 40 years since 1960 till the beginning of 2000 have been discussed from a unified point of view. The analysis done and the data collection allows a balance to be struck of that attractive fluidization technique at the beginning of the third millennium.