# Help me find this 1970s toy: 'Running Wild'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-1970s-toy-running-wild/654056>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 26, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-1970s-toy-running-wild/654056 "2013-03-26T23:41:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-1970s-toy-running-wild/654056/1 "2013-03-26T23:41:40Z")

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[From the 1973 Sears Christmas Wishbook:](http://s294.photobucket.com/user/badger60/media/runwild_zpscf3c59d3.jpg.html)

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> About as good as an executive sandbox, yet inexpensive. Kinetic art form to delight both the eye and the ear as over 200 polished steel ball bearings flow from one of the eight levels to another and finally come to rest on the bottom. Works on the hourglass principal. . . all you do is turn it over to set it in motion.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-1970s-toy-running-wild/654056/2 "2014-12-29T19:07:56Z")

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Well I would just like to thank everyone who has spent [the past 12½ years](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=119513) helping me to reacquire this little diversion. Mission accomplished. Quest is over. Go back to what you were doing.

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**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-1970s-toy-running-wild/654056/3 "2014-12-29T21:49:35Z")

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The image has been deleted. And I was curious; I was six that year.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-1970s-toy-running-wild/654056/4 "2014-12-30T04:20:28Z")

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> **[Photobucket | Make your memories fun!](https://s294.photobucket.com/user/badger60/media/runwild_zps69eaef91.jpg.html)**
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> Make your memories fun!