Did You Know:
Did you know Millennium discs are actually manufactured by Innova! That’s right, the disc designs are done by Millennium, but Innova does actual production of the discs.

Disc Plastics:
Being able to compare discs to one another between brands can be a challenge for players, and one of the important comparisons between Millennium and Innova is what “types” of plastic does each company use and how do they compare. Innova has four basic “plastics” they use for their discs:  DX, Pro, Champion, and Star.  Millennium on the other hand has only three types:  Millennium, Q, and Sirius.  Millennium doesn’t produce discs in DX, which is Innova’s basic and least expensive plastic. Discs produced in DX plastic tends to “beat in” quickly, and as it does the flight characteristics of the disc changes dramatically.  Because of that dramatic change in performance, and Millenniums strategy for consistency and reliability, they chose to not produce discs in that plastic type.  Millennium’s Standard, or “Millennium” plastic is the entry level plastic, and compares to the Pro plastic by Innova.  The “Q” plastic is equivalent to Champion for Innova, and Millennium’s “Sirius” plastic is equal to “Star.

Disc Makeup:
There is a lot of detail that goes into designing a disc golf disc, but in very simple terms every disc is made up of two basic parts:  the top plate and the wing, or rim.  By changing one or both of those parts to some degree, designer’s give each disc it’s own unique flight characteristics and performance.  Here’s a little information about the top plate/ wing configuration for a few of Millennium’s discs. 

• The Orion LF is made up of the Starfire/Wraith top with a Firebird-X wing.
• The Orion LS is made up of the Starfire/Wraith top with a unique wing all it’s own.
• The EXP1 is made up of the Banshee top with an Eagle-X wing.
• The Sentinel is made up of the Stingray top with a Cobra wing.
• The Aurora MS is made up of the Shark top with a Stingray wing.
• The JLS is made up of the Teebird with a Whippet wing.
• The Omega SS is a small bead Aviar.
• The Polaris is made up of the Gazelle top with a Whippet wing.
• (The Whippet is a Polaris with a big blunt nose)

Disc Comparisons:
When it comes right down to it, when anyone picks up a new disc they aren’t familiar with, they want to know how it performs to compared to discs they’ve already thrown.  Listed below are a few of Millennium’s discs and a how they compare to other discs available to players today.

• The Orion LS is between a TeeBird-L (TL) and a Wraith, more toward Wraith distance with TL control.
• The Orion LF is between an Eagle and a TeeRex, more toward TeeRex distance with Eagle control.
• The QMS flies similar to a Coyote with better wind resistance.  It’s extremely straight.
• The S-Omega has nearly the same flight as the Wizard.
• The Omega SS flies very straight in all but moderate to strong headwinds.

Other lesser known facts
Bottom line is, when deciding which discs to carry in your bag, you want to know how they will perform! Here’s a little information about performance of a few Millennium discs.

• The Millennium Orion LS is their most understable driver disc.
• The Q-Sentinels made in “San Marino” are the most overstable Sentinels.
• The other Q-Sents and S-Sents fly the same.
• The Q-Orion LF has less dome than the S-Orion LF and handles the wind better.
• The new Q-JLS and S-JLS are more overstable than previous molds.
• The New S-Orion LS 1.2 is beefier that the 1.1 mold.
• The New S-Orion LF 1.2 is beefier that the 1.1 mold.

CE Plastic Discs (from around 2000 – 2002)
When Innova first introduced it’s Champion plastic, it was called Champion Edition or Candy, (CE) CE plastic.  It was a very grippy plastic and many of these earlier runs have become very sought after by both players and collectors alike.  Because Millennium discs are manufactured by Innova, several Millennium molds were also produced in versions of this CE plastic in the “Q” plastic runs.  Listed below are a few of the discs produced in the Candy plastic for Millennium.

• QJLS 1.1
• CE-JLS Test Run of 2000
• QMS 1.1 (these you can tell by the two different color foils in the stamp)
• Q-Mega 1.1 Proto with bar-stamp
• EXP1 1.6 & 1.7
• Polaris LS 1.12