Ollivander's Magic?

[Timmy Boy]

In all my time spent at WWOHP I have never done Ollivanders. I have watched numerous Youtube videos of it, and it does look cute. I had a question about how the effects worked. How do they work? I thought that the long desk in the front hid a series of foot pedals that Ollivander would trigger at the right moment, but then I saw this video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdZ5Tpz2laI&feature=related

...and for the first one with the ladder, he steps clear away from the podium and the effect still works. I thought maybe it might work like the Fountain at Sinbad, where it's controlled by a person in a room using cameras and microphones?

EDIT: Here's another one where the wandkeeper actually stands on the stairs and the bells rings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq6rz0VQqq4&feature=related

 

[mesaboy2]

There is another TM in the room with him.

Occam's Razor.

 

[Timmy Boy]

Thanks! Those sneaky little wizards...

 

[mesaboy2]

I wouldn't have remembered that if I didn't just do it last night. (I did it early one July morning also.) Didn't plan to, but I couldn't resist when there was zero people waiting to get in. TM looked lonely.

 

[the Dark Marauder]

He's using magic! You know this!