Here are a few other examples of Armando Tamagnini's contributions to the world of dark rides.
Finally, we come to El Diablo. His face is familiar throughout the entire realm of Tamagnini's figures.
He's the guy we've seen time and again, sometimes disguised in different costumes, but that face was always the same.
I'd first seen him in the Laff In The Dark Pretzel ride at the old Riverside Park in Agawam, MA (now Six Flags New England).
He and the ride are long gone, but he's turned up in many other spots dressed in many different outfits,
from Williams Grove Park in PA to the Haunted Barrel Works in Toronto - traveling all the way from Italy.
He really does get around. I wonder where we'll run into him next?
  Left: The author (right) with El Diablo,
originally from Staten Island funhouse.
Below: Still knocking 'em dead in Spook-A-Rama,
Coney Island,NY.
Bottom: Catalog image.

Acknowledgements:
George LaCross
Royce Mathew
Parksmania

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