How exactly did Rey's pop-up entrance work?

[Burst]

I'm sure this has been shown as bonus material on some DVD somewhere.

How exactly did it work? For that matter, just how much room was there underneath the stage to make it work? He always got some pretty ridiculous airtime from the springboard, and I doubt it was just a trampoline under the stage, because the physics doesn't add up.

I can totally see why he doesn't do it anymore, BECAUSE of that ridiculous hangtime he got; can't be good for someone with the second-worst knees in pro wrestling. Wish we could give it to someone like Evan Bourne, though Sin Cara's trampoline is a reasonable approximation.

[rrm15]

Years ago I remember seeing a brief clip of the behind the scenes for it. Nothing that in depth that I can remember. Basically he was on some kind of platform under the stage, pulled some rope or something and the platform rose launching him up also. I don't really know how it worked and it was a few years ago though.

[A Platypus Rave]

It was a catapult basically.

he squatted down pulled a handle under the stage that launched him up at the top he jumped with the added momentum.

[Cactus Jack]

The platform rises to the top on cue, and he just jumps when he gets to the top.

[miffy]

The posthumous Michael Jackson film shows it as the dancers all 'pop up' at the start of a routine.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

I was always hoping for a malfunction that lauches him too high resulting in a Rey-shaped hole in the roof.