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Squeezable Skylines

stuffed toy company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ65058431
Source-derived summary

Squeezable Skylines was a stuffed toy company that was best known for selling stuffed toy towers of skyscrapers.

Based in Chicago, Squeezable Skylines was founded by four people, three of which were brothers. They all went to Glenbard West High School together, and later became friends.

Micheal Gordon, the "leader" of the group and lead architect.

Glenn Robertson, the lead operation.

Brent Robertson, the sales operator.

Staurn Robertson, the financial leader.

History

A Kickstarter campaign for Squeezable Skylines was launched on April 8, 2014 and ended on May 8, 2014. The campaign was unsuccessful after not reaching $25,000. In spite of this, Squeezable Skylines still started selling their products.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Squeezable Skylines” as stuffed toy company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Squeezable, Skylines and stuffed.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Squeezable, Skylines and stuffed providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Squeezable Skylines”, the useful work is to connect “stuffed toy company” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65058431. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from Squeezable Skylines” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.