Rest assured we are approaching dark ride territory, but Armando Tamagnini's creative legacy is just too enormous to ignore.
Top left: early photo of Tamagnini (center) posing with associates and early fiberglass figure.
Top right: a colossal mouth entrance to a dark attraction at Edenlandia, Naples, Italy.
Bottom right: A scene from the film "Roman Holiday" featuring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck at the "Bocca Della Verita", or "Mouth of Truth" in Rome: legend has it that a liar who inserts his hand in the mouth will have it bitten off.
Bottom left: a coin-operated amusement machine replicating the Bocca created by Tamagnini. Insert coin, then insert hand.
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Over the course of his career, Tamagnini and Park Style demonstrated a
range of versatility that enabled them to produce creatures of fear and beauty.
Below left: Lake of Dreams, Fiabilandia Park, Rimini, Italy Below right: La Sirena |
Below are four Tamagnini-designed dark ride cars.
Top row and lower right: Flying Witch, Rye, NY. Lower left: Dante's Inferno (Dungeon), Wildwood, NJ. |
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