He is a wacky cuckoo clock with a smiling face (which resembles circle-shape with glasses on in all versions of the ride except the Parisian version, which is a sun on one half and a moon on the other) rocking to the ticking sound he/she makes. Every fifteen minutes, he opens his base doors and a squad of dolls dressed like they are from around the world come out. They parade for the riders to the instrumental toy soldier version of the ride's titular theme song. After they return to the clock's interiors, Glockenspiel would close the parade door and opens his central doors to reveal the time (with the hour represented by large number blocks and the quarter hour by small blocks) as jesters would ring the big bells (for the hour) and small bells (for the quarter hour) and then close the doors one last time and remain a normal clock tower for another fifteen minutes.
