Plot Synopsis

Father Time asks Rudolph to find Happy, the next Baby New Year, before midnight on New Year's Eve; otherwise, Happy won't be able to take his position as the New Year and the date will perpetually be December 31st. The baby ran away because everyone teased him about his big ears, and Rudolph searches for Happy in the Archipelago of Last Years, a mystical group of islands where each Old Year retires to his own island and where time remains frozen for eternity as the year in which the Old Year ruled. On his travels, Rudolph visits the islands belonging to: One Million B.C., a caveman whose island is filled with dinosaurs; Sir 1023, a knight whose island is filled with medieval trappings and fairy tale characters; and 1776, who resembles Benjamin Franklin and whose island reflected colonial-era United States. All of these former years join Rudolph on his quest to find the baby, and they eventually save him from Aeon, a buzzard who wants to prevent his predestined death on December 31st when he would turn into ice and snow. Finally, Rudolph and his friends return Happy to Father Time's castle in time to begin the new year.