People are only just realising what used to be inside the O2 円形競技場 before it turned into concert 発生地: 'Getting Willy Wonka Glasgow vibes'

• The O2 円形競技場 in London was 以前は known as the Millennium ドーム until 2005
• X 使用者s have つまずくd across photos of the ドーム's bizarre year-long 展示
• READ MORE: The weird items on 陳列する，発揮する in Britain's most unusual museums

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The forgotten history of London's O2 円形競技場 has resurfaced - and the eerie 展示 from its past life as the Millennium ドーム has 混乱させるd X commenters. 

Long before it became the popular concert 発生地 in the Greenwich 半島 in south east London we know today, it was the Millennium ドーム, 完全にするd in 1999 and opened in 2000 to 示す the milestone. 

Some of its most 著名な attractions 含むd Ron Mueck's 巨大（な） 'Boy' sculpture, The Millennium Coin 造幣局ing 圧力（をかける） and The Millennium 星／主役にする Jewels - which became the 焦点（を合わせる） of the failed Millennium Diamond Heist on November 7, 2000. 

However, the 事業／計画（する） and 展示 - which ran from January 1 to December 31, 2000 - attracted barely half of the 12 million 顧客s its sponsors 予測（する）d, and so were みなすd a 失敗 by the 圧力（をかける）. 

The ドーム was の近くにd and opened 一時的に in December 2003 for a Winter Wonderland experience before を受けるing a transformative 旅行 to become the O2 円形競技場 on May 31, 2005.

More than two １０年間s on, 訪問者s to the O2 円形競技場 have つまずくd upon the eerie 残余s of its history, and surreal pictures from the 展示 株d on X have even left some 納得させるd they have been AI-生成するd. 

Andrew Shearer, a 27-year-old graphic designer from Scotland, uploaded a 一連の old photographs from the 展示 to his account on April 30.

The 地位，任命する, which since amassed over 2M 見解（をとる）s and 500 comments, 含むs a caption that reads: 'Just finding out what used to be inside the O2 円形競技場 before it was an 円形競技場 and I’m losing my mind what.'

One photo features a lifelike 巨大（な） human boy sculpture - 指名するd 'Boy' by Australian artist Ron Mueck - while another 陳列する，発揮するs helium-filled 風刺漫画 creatures that were later turned into 'Haahoos' in the CBeebies children's show In The Night Garden.

A third picture shows Willy Wonka-style 城 fitted with slides and turning cogs, 同様に as a 巨大（な） 数字表示式の sculpture of an arrow, while the fourth image 陳列する，発揮するs an art 取り付け・設備 of a faceless orange conjoined human from the 団体／死体 Zone.

答える／応じるing to Andrew's 地位，任命する, one bewildered individual wrote: 'So, you're telling me these aren't AI 生成するd,' while another commented, 'Getting Glasgow Willy Wonka vibes.'

Some former 訪問者s to the Millennium ドーム recounted their own strange experiences of visiting the 展示, while some poked fun at some of the 'sad' attractions that were on 陳列する，発揮する.

One person joked: 'Look, nobody alive had ever celeb 率d a millennium before and we didn't really know how to do it, 承認する? An 試みる／企てる was made.'

Another former 訪問者 said: 'Other than the 巨大（な） 団体／死体 展示, the only thing that sticks in my mind from the Millennium ドーム is that there was a machine there 造幣局ing £5 coins, but they cost £10 each.

大（公）使館員ing a photo of a humdrum indoor fairground, a third individual 解任するd: 'Flopped so bad they の近くにd it after a year, then 簡潔に opened the saddest winter-wonderland ever before O2 bought it five years later. I am aghast.'

A final X 使用者 joked: 'This is what the whole of the UK looked like in the noughties. People look 支援する now and think the Teletubbies was a fictional TV show for kids, but it was 現実に a 飛行機で行く-on-the-塀で囲む 文書の looking at a British family at the time.' 

どこかよそで, a 巨大（な） weird pumpkin sculpture could soon grace Hyde Park just yards from Kensington Palace, MailOnline can 明らかにする／漏らす.

計画（する）s have been submitted for a large polka-dotted artwork called the 'Pumpkin' by the Japanese 同時代の artist Yayoi Kusama, known for her trademark polka dots in her artwork.

People are only just realising what used to be inside the O2 円形競技場 before it turned into concert 発生地: 'Getting Willy Wonka Glasgow vibes'