New Millennium Park

New Millennium Park
This Millennium was made for you.
Location	Cytopia
Type	Theme Park
Opening Year	2009
Founder	Idibo Hassan

New Millennium Park (commonly known as New Millennium or NMP) is a theme park set along and on the boardwalk of Millennium Pier in Cytopia. Millennium Pier was already initially a small local spot for mild entertainment, albeit a bit dilapidated due to its 'Millennium' of use as exaggerated by the locals. Idibo Hassan purchased it from its previous owners and transformed it into the renowned and beloved theme park it is today.

It took 8 years to build the park and construction started in 2001, opening in 2009 and initially was only comprised of the boardwalk facilities and the indoor area. Recreational facilities now include 2 additional areas with various entertainment features including coasters, sit-down interactive rides, exploration-centric areas, and a children's area.

Layout and Attractions

The overarching design of the theme park consists of a 'flat-helix' formation: The center of the park connects with diagonal pathways to each region of the park, with each region then connecting to its opposing horizontal counterpart with another pathway. A small light train connects around all regions in a figure eight.

Each area within the park is themed after a certain time period with lore to match, making each section have its own unique flair dedicated to distant past, present, future, and futures of 'Nevertobe'.

Centennial Square connects all sections of the theme park together and all locations are themed around times. Centennial Square in particular is a small garden area and guest services. Idibo enjoyed balance so there is sleek designs of now modern Cytopian styling — white hexagonal futuristic appearance mixed with nice cropped greenery (something deemed futuristic in Idibo's time). Each region gradually transitions to the architecture style of each region in an acclaimed seamless design.

Centennial Square is too small to be considered its own area, and since its associated with the entrance of the park is usually lumped commonly in with the boardwalk area's parking section as a result.

Millennium Pier

The original core of the theme park back when it was simply an entertainment complex. The theme of the pier is The Future That Never Was (Nevertobe by park fans) which is comprised of a steampunk appearance comprised of mechanical and overt metal plating, clunky exposed gearing (safe of course), artificial steam shooting from pipes to blow on guests, and mini blimps and other well-camoflauged drones meant to give the illusion of a busy sky.

The pier has typical boardwalk attractions and entertainment cloaked in its Victorian steampunk vibes such as face painting, calligraphy and caricature art, fried food stands, and carnival games.

Millenium Pier's attractions of note include:

Enterprise 15 - One of those spinny rides that force you against the wall that has a glass bottom so you can see when it takes off into the sky. Looks kind of Da Vinci-esque. Think Spaceship Mountain at Disneyland Paris. Is pretty awesome at night because they have lights in the water.

Airbus 9000 - A hot air balloon ride. The fabric of the balloon is made to appear as metallic as possible. Drivers, much like most crew in Millennium Pier, wear steampunk outfits befitting of the time.

Parking Garages - Themed around different Melty characters in steampunk garb! You can scan your ticket (they’re suuuch cool wristbands, nice and breathable, super small chip capable of storing everything) at stations throughout the garage and it’ll remember where you parked for you. The light train rail connected here comes by every 5 minutes to pick up visitors.

Heartland

The coaster park. Named for its effects on the cardiovascular system and for its modern designs and more individual theming for each respective coaster.

Heartland's attractions of note include:

TermV - The fastest coaster NMP has to offer. The seat restraints are modified to allow the sensation that you can fly out of your seat at any time. Themed around jetpacking!

Chameleon - This coaster utilizes AI to create a new coaster track to rearrange into every week. The coaster’s sections are built to easily pull apart and reassemble and track sections are all different colors hence the name. "Never the same ride twice!" is the ride's main motto.

Ring of Foes Rise Again: A huge screen ride/coaster hybrid, you’re a simple crew of a modern ship who ventures into treacherous waters altered by the mad scientist in CITTA, where you collide with the Ring of Foes and have to weave through their dastardly attempts at stealing your things. Notable for soaking people through depending on seat placement.

Genesis of Dr. Lamb - Experience the beginnings of this time-obsessed professor before they started tangling up timelines. Heartland's oldest and only wooden coaster respectively. The queue is a must-see for people new to the park, providing interactive areas throughout the lines that imply the visitors themselves are the reason for said time obsession. The story was heavier and a bit darker when the ride initially opened (for example a character was cut from the lore that was originally implied to be wiped from Dr. Lamb's original timeline by fumbling visitors, causing them to develop CITTA and forever fail to recover them) before it was changed to be more lighthearted and 'non-justified', according to fans. Many people disapproved of the change, but NMP executives have yet to acknowledge this. The ride itself is a rocky three minute coaster with voice lines from a Young Dr. Lamb scattered throughout every turn and loop, representing their attempts at harnessing the power of time itself.

Cytopian Inter-Temporal Transit Authority (CITTA)

One of the other oldest sections of the park, it has received the most advancements and improvements throughout its lifespan in the park. Themed after time travel, the CITTA (Cytopian Inter-Temporal Transit Authority) has rides of distant past, infamous past, and canonically is the reason for the steampunk future displayed at Millennium Pier due to an accidental time rift leaking out and trapping the region in Nevertobe.

This area is considered the most lore-heavy; Doctor Lamb is a sleekly dressed mad-scientist who is in control of the facility. Visitors are volunteers in said facility, having been sent here to help explore the past and its impact on the future here. Doctor Lamb is not so secretly trying to use volunteers to help achieve total time manipulation capabilities.

CITTA's attractions of note include:

EVOLYOUTION: A Dinosaur Experience - VR ride, a popular attraction for tweens to young adults. Visitors are each sat in hi-tech chairs and made to play in a virtual landscape where they are dinosaurs in respective time periods. Visitors are capable of fighting, hunting, and other dinosaur activities in the simulation. The Cretaceous period is the ride's newest addition.

Out In the Woods - A slow dark ride, with modern theming about animals stealing food in preparation for a big animal picnic! Despite the constant reminders about incredibly functional cameras people still neck to filth in there.

Project PROJECT (Protecting and Remedying Obscure Jump-points, Environments and Connected Timelines) - A secret team (duo) of scientists (dumb interns of Dr. Lamb's) set to thwart the mad scientist’s intents on crafting the timeline in his image have you use super hi-tech laser guns to rectify his errors and paradoxes. This is what is considered a people eating attraction (an attraction mainly meant to control guest flow in an area), and is a point and shoot with different themed areas within to target and blast.

VHS: Villains, Heroes, and Scavengers - We’re back in the 80’s and Daybreaker needs your help! He needs you to record data on a simplified version of the iconic Daybreaker bracelet: The Sundialer. Uncover secrets relating to Intermission and the other evil 80's villain’s schemes! Features a very well-articulated animatronic of Daybreaker toward the conclusion of the hunt.

Kidtopia

A standard children's section filled with small kiddie coasters, a mini-train, and small playgrounds. The ground is specifically designed for children to fall on and receive minimal injury! Main attractions of note include:

Meet Melty and Friends! - A meet and greet spot for the titular mouse-rat and their friends. The area has been connected to real-time signs and the official app that let you know exactly who’s going to show up for autographs, hugs, smiles, and light improv! Once characters are done presenting here it's common for them to do some rounds on Millennium Pier to interact with guests (sans signings or individual photos).

Sing and Read with Fiend and Faun - Fiend and Faun are two face characters, a mutant fox deer and a faun with a tracker bracelet. These two are pals from the Ebon Woods who were imagined in Idibo’s desire to have a functioning science facility near the park that studied the creatures lurking inside, innovating new miracles for mankind in the process! Fiend and Faun sing songs and read stories about cool inventions of past, present, and future.

Sprightly Springs - A small water play area filled with statues of Melty and friends playing with sea monsters on the Cytopian coast! Uses sensors to note when people are in the area to conserve water use. Sometimes the sensors (and depending on the day the manual operators) intentionally delay things so people get mega blasted. This is funny to watch.

Cytopian Children's Exploratorium - Also known as The Cube, the Exploratorium is a large tilted cube-shaped building toward the back of Kidtopia. The Exploratorium hosts various hands-on science exhibitions for children to engage with. It has been cited by many notable members of Cytopian society as their first leap into loving STEM-based experiences. Character art is strewn all throughout, but the Exploratorium is less focused on NMP-related concepts and more purely edutainment, and is visited by many field trips and non park-goers often. The building features a special glass that can go from opaque to transparent, thus the Cube can be seen flexing and stretching by those seeing it from a distance. Many park-goers laud the experience at night when lighting adds an enhanced feeling to the illusion. The Cube was built in front of SPIDERS! in an attempt to conceal the theatre better from its unintended audience with a large distraction-filled building.

SPIDERS! - A misplaced ride— as the construction of the kids area took more of the space around this ride, it has become regularly confused for a children's theatre show. The show features Devyn, a young adult searching around an abandoned home for their sibling. The bugs within the house, of course, do not approve of this meddling, and a musical thriller that makes viewers into active participants assisting in Devyn's survival ensues. The show plays about 5 times a day for 25 minutes with 45 minute breaks in between.

Mascots and Characters

New Millennium Park's main mascots consist of animals mainly utilized in the past for testing.

Melty: Known also as Melty Millennium, Melty is the main mascot of New Millennium Park. Melty loves hanging out with their friends and making new memories with them every day. Melty is a mouse-rat hybrid, and though their official name ends in Mouse it is almost universally left off of official merchandising and fan sites.

Doroteya: Sometimes called 'Doro' for short, Doroteya Dog is one of the secondary mascots of New Millennium Park. She is usually depicted with a Russian accent and is the protective one of the Melty friends. Her character used to hint at an ominous past before her characterization was altered to be more child-friendly and more big sister-esque. She loves her friends and isn't afraid to let them know it.

Springer: Springer Rabbit is another secondary mascot. His most notable feature is his baby blue fur, a side effect of consuming his favorite cotton candy daily. Springer loves to ride the coasters and has always been the mascot featured on coaster guidebooks, tours, and recommendations. He is a very excitable and vocal friend within the group.

Web: Webediah Monkey is the antagonistic spidermonkey mascot within the Melty and Friends group. Web is officially known Webediah Monkey, but most NMP fans and employees have maintained the nickname Web instead due to his usual depiction with hi-tech objects. Web is Dr. Lamb's assistant, meant to help deter any foils that may come in their path for time domination. Despite this Melty and the others consider Web a good friend. Web denies their friendship but will consider himself 'foiling' and 'crashing' events like picnics and birthday parties in order to still participate. The other friends comply with this framing to make him feel included.

Shows and Events

New Millennium Park does regular night shows featuring drones in replacement of fireworks, usually accompanied by musical arrangements and water effects. These shows will usually stick around for three or so months before being replaced with a newer one.

NMP also celebrates various holidays and their own mini-events throughout the park regularly.

Celebration of Separation festivities are the biggest event of the year at New Millennium besides the park's own anniversary events (usually spanning the entire year and consisting of a multitude of mini events, exclusive foods and limited time performances). Many sponsors from across the city-state participate in funding the extravagant shows and musical numbers. Melty and Friends get to don Cytopian-related outfits, Doro usually taking the mantle of Cybil in a majority of her designs. Singers and talent from across the nation are booked to perform at a concert held at night just before the drone and fireworks show, usually titled something patriotic and hopeful. NMP is known for testing new ride concepts on this day and using surveillance data to determine what rides get the greenlight to come into the park full-time. The Celebration of Separation event has free admission for all.

Time Twisting Terror is the most recent haunted house event hosted at NMP. The theme changes annually but has followed a loose plot since the haunted house event began in 2015. The house themes tend to ignore existing theming around the parks on nights of the event's operation, instead harnessing their own theming to provide intense jumpscares and haunting scenes. Astra Leviticus patented a mechanism allowing for the illusion of an animatronic human getting shaken and torn apart (usually in the mouths of fictional monsters) that has been utilized every year since their introduction of it.

Time Twisting Terror in particular's voted favorite area to walk through between house locations was the boardwalk, featuring dinosaurs (or park guests stuck in dino form from EvelYOUtion depending on who you ask) terrorizing the steampunk locals and proceeding in an all-out war against them. The standard entrance to the boardwalk made guests have to walk through the freshly blasted ribcage of a Tyrannosaurus.

Food

Unlike the rest of Cytopia, New Millennium Park possesses a far wider and robust array than typical Cytopian foodstuffs in flavor. That being said, it still doesn't taste that amazing or varied to tourists. The sweets are the notable exception to this, being some of the most desired foodstuffs in the park by non-Cytopians (and the most advertised with Springer's image attached). Many tourists settle on bringing in their own non-microwave needed foods to sustain themselves throughout the day instead, or bringing in sauce and spices to improve what's available. Fans can pay for refrigerated lockers for medicinal and food-based purposes located throughout the park.

Trivia

• The full motto and sign-off of the park's opening is “Where we explore the past, celebrate the present, and embrace all possibilities the future has to offer. This Millennium was made for you.” The last line has become the modern shorthand and what is normally found on merchandise.
• Dr Lamb's design has always had an annual five year fashion update to keep the professor trapped between different sorts of previous and current fashion trends.
• Dr Lamb uses they/he pronouns.
• Workers and crew at NMP are known as "Hands" like those on a clock. Standard cast members are "Helping Hands", tour guides are "Guiding Hands", the park nurses are "Healing Hands", etc.
• The Sundialer (separate purchase from tickets) consists of fun tools like:
  • Standard Laser pointer (for opening hidden things, charging things)
  • Speaker (for ‘Daybreaker’ to instruct and congratulate the kids)
  • One large button (for activating various things on request)
  • Smaller buttons (for changing what is accessed via the big button, like replacing one cool mechanism for another that you can use throughout the areas)
  • There’s “boop card” locations where you can check on your progress or delete said progress in a "time rift".
• Intermission is a recurring character in the scavenger hunt and will clap to use his Mark and make children freeze while things are set back up for them to explore in other rooms. Intermission will also steal things from the location to scatter them and encourage the kids to explore the newly prepped areas.
• Many people ship Fiend and Faun.
• There are rumors among recurring visitors of an underground city for the animatronics under CITTA.
• There's an urban legend that the very advanced and articulated Daybreaker animatronic is haunted by his ghost.