I'd rather see the effect be disassembly of the character, to consitiuent parts, dropped down the hole at the teleport site, and then pop back up the hole at the other teleport and reassembled :-D
Oh, it would? I was just figuring you could take the pieces that make the minifig (hand, head, hat etc) and just drip them all to the ground, like objects, and then into the hole.