Dania Beach Hurricane Declares Bankruptcy

[digidocI Guess Donkeys Are Okay]

I am a middles school teacher and I created an elective called Theme Park Engineering. We go to Boomers! park at the end of each year to ride the Hurricane and take G-force readings. Well I called today and the lady on the phone said the Hurricane owner filed for bankruptcy yesterday (April 26th, 2011). At this point we do not know what will happen, but for now it is closed.

[Skycoastin SteveFive babies drowned in a fire]

Thread title is a little misleading, this doesn't necessarily mean the DBH will be torn down.

[BeemerBoyWDW Monorail Fanatic]

Hang on, I've got Prince Desmond on speed dial.

I'm a little confused here, was the DBH owned and operated by an outside party even though it was on Boomers property, or is the whole Boomers area closed?

[SharkTumsSite Admin]

Didn't this happen once before? Hopefully the ride gets saved and doesn't sit there rotting away.

[Skycoastin SteveFive babies drowned in a fire]

^^An outside company owned and operated DBH, and Boomers' website doesn't mention anything being closed (although that hardly means anything given how crappy that place is, could easily mean nobody updates the site).

[jedimaster1227Open Up Happiness]

I've done a quick news scan and found nothing regarding this, so I wouldn't be sure yet... Especially considering the people I've spoken to at the Hurricane were more focused on the music coming from their headphones than they were about operating the ride.

Even if this is true, it is possible that the ride could remain open throughout the process. Or it could just be bought buy Boomers! and then they could move forward with that water park expansion they had talked about a few years ago...

[digidocI Guess Donkeys Are Okay]

I looked in the news as well, and it has not surfaced yet. However, the lady I spoke with at Boomers! to sell me the package for the kids field trip, which includes rides on the Hurricane, said that they would substitute unlimited go-cart rides for the roller coaster part of the package. She reported that the owner of the Hurricane declared bankruptcy and that there was not going to be any more roller coaster rides.

Who knows what the future will bring? But for now, it is not operating.

[JakizleI had sex with N-Tag before you did.]

All I'm saying is, no matter what happens I'm really happy I went down there twice this year to ride it. I do hope nothing happens though, as it really is an amazing coaster and it was being taken care of when I went to ride it in February (all new wood everywhere AND they were rebuilding the 2nd train).

[simon8899I wish they would make Street Fighter Donkey.]

Its always kinda sad that a good ride suffers from bad management.

I'll be in Vegas the day after Sahara and the Speed are closing down...