Sydney's lord mayor says the city is spending $6.6 million on its New Year's Eve event. Source: AAP
SYDNEY'S skyline has exploded in gold, pink, green and blue as part of the traditional New Year's Eve family-oriented curtain raiser.
The ten minute spectacular at 9pm (AEDT)- which illuminated the city and dazzled spectators - is a warm-up for the city's midnight show-stopper.
Under balmy and clear skies, tens of thousands of revellers lined Darling Harbour and other viewing hotspots, and about 1.5 million filled the harbour foreshore.
As streams of incandescent colour shot into the heavens, families on picnic blankets cheered and clapped along with others aboard luxury yachts.
Colours streamed from four barges situated around the harbour, with gold flashes cascading like tinsel as a gold butterfly-like design lit up the bridge.
At one stage fireworks fell from the structure like a waterfall, with the display reaching a kaleidoscopic climax of green, red and blue fireworks.
"It was all great, amazing," said Lee Whittaker, from Denistone, who brought her kids Mel and Leon with her.
Kallya Alffonso, from Maroubra, said festivities in Sydney were much better than her native Brazil.
"Sydney is a very pretty city, the Harbour Bridge and Opera House make it looks spectacular," she said.
"It's the spirit too, everybody is here together, and it's just the whole atmosphere."
Event organisers estimate a record 130,000 people packed Sydney's Darling Harbour for the 9pm display.
"There is definitely more people here than last year," organiser Sal Sharah told AAP.
"We've had great weather and a great lead up to this evening."
The early show was greeted with cheers from the thousands of spectators at Lady Macquarie's Chair, many of whom had waited much of the day under a hot sun.
"I think they were awesome," said nine-year-old Nell Whittaker.
"I loved the sparkle effect, and they were really loud too."
A much-hyped show-stopper is then set to wow the world at midnight.
All eyes are on Sydney, one of the first major cities to ring in the new year, with more than a billion people expected to tune in to watch the $6.6 million party worldwide.
Many local partygoers are only now emerging to gather at pubs and clubs in time for midnight.
Others will cram onto rooftops or gather in backyards for a VB and sausage sambo to say goodbye to 2012
Celebrations in Sydney dwarf rival cities, with only 100,000 attending Paris fireworks, while 700,000 revellers gather for festivities in London.
Pop princess Kylie Minogue, chosen as the event's creative ambassador, will be honoured with a one-of-a-kind sparkling musical note firework at the turn of the year.
The semiquaver will be one of 100,000 individual pyrotechnic creations this year, including brand new koala, octopus and hand images up in lights.
People going to the CBD to watch the fireworks have been urged to leave their cars behind and take public transport, with road closures in place and extra + and buses laid on for the night.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge will be closed in both directions from 11pm on Monday to 1am on Tuesday.
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