Celebration preparations are under way at Melbourne's Federation Square with half a million people expected to flood the CBD on New Year's Eve.
Revellers have been told to watch out for a "ghost shell" firework, which resembles a giant rolling wheel in the sky.
"I don't think it's been used in fireworks display of this scale anywhere in Australia before," Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle told Fairfax radio on Wednesday.
"When it's fired it's like a giant wheel in the sky and it moves about 70 metres across the sky, but as it does so, and as it rolls like a wheel, it changes colour."
Fireworks will be fired from 21 skyscrapers, blanketing six square kilometres of the city.
Mr Doyle said Melbourne had planned for a 10th of Victoria's population to flood the CBD on New Year's Eve.
"We've prepared pretty meticulously for round about 550,000 people, even up to 600,000 people," he said.
Premier Daniel Andrews encouraged Victorians to have fun, but make sure they had a plan to get home.
"Look out for each other, be safe, be responsible, but most of all have fun," he said.
Public transport will run all night, with organisers encouraging people to use trains and trams rather than try to get a taxi.
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