Piper Entertainment Inc.

Piper Entertainment Incorporated was a Entertainment Company most known for their Home Media throughout the 80s and 90s.

History
Piper Entertainment was founded by two college graduates Greg Dew and Dan Mills who both were interested in the entertainment industry and after graduating college in 1973 in 1974 they both established Piper Entertainment Incorporated in Los Angeles California, The company at first made licensed merchandise like toys and dolls and had contracts with companies like Universal with the most famous franchise they made merchandise was the TV Show [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Rock! Schoolhouse Rock!], In 1976 Greg Dew and Dan Mills due to declining interest and with the new board members wanting to take the company in another direction they both retired from their positions and sold their positions to Bob Falmer who was the head of economics department, In 1980 at the Consumer Electronics Show when the company (Specifically the Higher Ups) took interest at Telecom's Booth where they were showing off a Animatronic nicknamed "Piston", Due to its nature and the recent success of a West Coast based company named Chuck E. Cheeses which had combined Arcades and Animatronics and at the time was ranking in high profits so of course Piper Entertainment would be interested in the idea so a deal was made between the two companies and only two years later a restaurant named Barn Critters Funtime Theater was opened up in the Strawberry Village Shopping Plaza in 1982, The Restaurant was a massive and unexpected success ranking around 15 Million Dollars for the company by 1984 so due to this unforeseen popularity more locations were opened, Piper Entertainment would begin a focus on the Characters seen in the animatronic shows with things like Toys and Plushies of the characters being common, In 1986 the company established PiperTV which was a TV station operating out of L.A. and at launch was really successful increasing the company's profits, Around 1995 due to bad decisions by the higher ups at the company which included investing way to heavily into the Animatronic Restaurant Industry as it began starting to crumble and that the acquisitions the last following years which included the purchases of Bunker Studios, Temple Animation Productions and Settler Entertainment which in total cost the company around 37 Million Dollars this and other decisions resulted in the company's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on September 24th 1998, The Company's assets were mostly sold to Universal Studios although rights for other properties like the Barn Critters Band not being bought out.

Legacy
Piper Entertainment is still known for their Toys and TV Network and of course their Barn Critters Restaurants and their legacy is still felt most noticeably with the restaurant Barn Critters Nostalgia Zone which is a restaurant wanting to keep alive the legacy of Piper Entertainment and Barn Critters.