This was probably the toughest part to figure out what I wanted to do.  At first I thought I'd just make Braomar hard-wired to a wall adapter, but I didn't like the idea of a wire coming out of the base.  I decided to make it battery powered.  I thought about using a RC switch, but that would still drain the battery.

What I came up with was putting a reed switch in the base, and having it sit on a platform that magnetically sticks to the 9V battery in the center and has a magnet along the edge to operate the reed switch.  When Glenn wants to turn Braomar on, he ritated the base and viola! Braomar turns on and does his light show.