Disco-tron 3000

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Disco-tron 3000
Drops in disco zombies when dropping the beat.
Almanac statistics
Toughness	Machined
Speed	Basic
Special	Summons Disco Jetpack Zombies
In-game statistics
Health	2000
Sun cost	300 (Zomboss Test Lab only)
Weakness	(disables) (blow away summoned
First seen	Far Future - Day 10 or Modern Day - Day 10
Code name	disco_mech
Other code names	cardgame_disco_mech (Card Clash) card_game_enemy_disco_mech (Card Clash, opponent)
After some initial problems with the sideburn suspension system, the Disco-tron 3000 went on to become the shufflin' dance-bot of doom it is today.

Disco-tron 3000 is a mechanized walker in Plants vs. Zombies 2 that appears in Far Future. It is a large machine that is operated by two Imps. It summons four Disco Jetpack Zombies around it every 15 seconds. This makes it very similar to the Dancing Zombie in Plants vs. Zombies.

Description

The Disco-tron 3000 is a reference to the new design of Dancing Zombie from the first game. Like the Mecha-Football Zombie, Disco-tron 3000 is a bipedal walker but does not have legs to support its feet.

The head resembles an orange afro and has a bent antenna atop of it. It features a sound system on its forehead with red and green sirens, and a speaker adjacent to the two sirens. It has a satellite dish designed to look like a disco ball with a microphone acting as the tip on its left side.

It also features yellow-colored sunglasses with the lenses acting as windows for the drivers. The lower part of the face of Disco-tron 3000 are the same color as the zombies's skin. Its "shoes" have fish hanging from the top of the shoe sealed within them, similar to Dancing Zombie's shoes.

Almanac entry

Disco-tron 3000
	TOUGHNESS Machined SPEED Basic Drops in disco zombies when dropping the beat. Special: summons Disco Jetpack Zombies After some initial problems with the sideburn suspension system, the Disco-tron 3000 went on to become the shufflin' dance-bot of doom it is today.

Overview

Disco-tron 3000 can absorb 2000 damage, and its appearance changes upon an absorption of 320, 600, 860, 1120, 1460, and 1740 damage before dying at 2000 damage. When it enters the lawn, it will have 6 seconds before it will start summoning Disco Jetpack Zombies in which the duration of the dancing will be 5 seconds

Audio

Disco-tron 3000's music

Encounters

Player's House: Piñata Party

Far Future: Days 10, 12, 19, 21, 24, 27, 29, 35 and Terror from Tomorrow

Frostbite Caves: "Electrical Boogaloo" Epic Quest - Step 6

Lost City: "Rescue the Gold Bloom" Epic Quest - Step 8, and "Electrical Boogaloo" Epic Quest - Step 9

Modern Day: Days 10, 14, 26, and "Electrical Boogaloo" Epic Quest - Step 2

Arena: Explode-O-Nut's All-Out Tournament

Strategies

Due to its ability to summon Disco Jetpack Zombies endlessly, Disco-tron 3000 is a prominent threat that must be dealt with quickly. Given these circumstances, your universal counter would consist of using Blover to neutralize the summons, then focus on dealing with the zombie itself before more could spawn. Use an E.M.Peach (if there are many other mechanical zombies nearby) or Iceberg Lettuce wisely against the Disco-tron 3000 because they are both one-time use plants. A Cherry Bomb or Grapeshot would be an ideal choice as they can destroy all the summoned Disco Jetpack Zombies and heavily damage Disco-tron 3000, reducing its health to that of a normal Zombie. A Grapeshot can even kill the Disco-tron 3000 if its grapes bounce into the zombie, especially when planted right on the zombie.

They are unable to summon Disco Jetpack Zombies while eating plants, so planting Wall-nut and similar plants right in front of them are effective for preventing it from summoning more, buying time to set up traps, such as Potato Mines. Gumnut works especially well for the purpose, as you don't need to consider your placement much.

Tall-nuts can block the Disco Jetpack Zombies' forward movement, giving plants like Snapdragon and Winter Melon time to destroy them before they advance. Snapdragons are especially effective and two columns of them can effectively keep the waves sent by the Disco-tron 3000 at bay with minimal damage to the Tall-nuts, though you might still need to replace them.

Also, you can try using the Laser Bean, Lightning Reed or Fume-shroom, as their attacks can hit multiple zombies at once, often preventing the Disco Jetpack Zombies from actually obstructing them.

Bowling Bulbs can also be very helpful even though most of the times, the Aquamarine ones are the only bulbs that functions well in dealing with large numbers of Disco-tron 3000s, which can provide support to other plants like Citron and Melon-pult. You could also just use Melon-pults on their own with their splash, or use Winter Melon to slow them down.

Primal Potato Mines can easily take down groups of Disco-tron 3000s alongside many other mechs, as it does just the amount of damage the zombie absorbs, though it can't hit the Disco Jetpack Zombies.

As Disco-tron 3000 is a mechanized threat eating plants normally, it is also vulnerable to Hypno-shroom and Imp Pear, whose special abilities can easily deny its sheer bulk. Other sources of Hypnosis also work well, since they all fully heal mechanical zombies, and it will also summon allied Disco Jetpack Zombies, clogging up the lane in your favor.

Balance changes

Update 5.8.1

• ▲ Health increased from 2000 DPS to 2400 DPS

Update 6.0.1

• ▼ Health decreased from 2400 DPS to 2000 DPS

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Disco-tron 3000
Simplified Chinese	迪斯科3000	Lit. "Disco 3000"
French	Disco-tron 3000
German	Disco-Tron 3000
Italian	Disco-tron 3.000
Brazilian Portuguese	Discotron 3000
Spanish	Discotrón 3000

Trivia

• It resembles the new Dancing Zombie's head and dance moves from Plants vs. Zombies.
  • Disco-tron 3000 also resembles Darth Vader's helmet from the Star Wars films, as well as the vampire robot from Contra, a beehive, and a hamburger in terms of its shape.
• Much like Dancing Zombie, there are fish hanging inside the feet of the Disco-tron 3000.
• There was a glitch where if the player planted an E.M.Peach or destroyed the Disco-tron 3000 before its Disco Jetpack Zombies finished spawning, they would instantly fall down and die. This glitch has been fixed in the 2.4.1 update.
  • However, this glitch is still present in the Chinese version.
  • This glitch could have been useful because the Disco-tron 3000 guides the Disco Jetpack Zombies into battle, and if disabled or destroyed, the Disco Jetpack Zombies would crash and die when summoned.
• In every level, the first Disco-tron 3000 to appear is the only one that plays music.
• Disco-tron 3000 music is a futuristic remix of the Señor Piñata music.
• As of the 3.1.1 update, it can now appear in the first and fifth lane. Before, it would only appear in the second, third, and fourth lane. If it spawns in one of these two lanes, it can only summon three Disco Jetpack Zombies instead of four, much like Dancing Zombie summoning Backup Dancers on Pool and Fog levels in the first Plants vs. Zombies.
• Like Dancing Zombie from the first game, if the player hypnotizes the Disco-tron 3000, it will summon hypnotized Disco Jetpack Zombies that fight on behalf of the player's plants.
• In the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2, it always appeared to be in its last degrade, but this was fixed in the Dark Ages update.
• Whenever at least one is alive and onscreen, its music will replace the stage's current music. This trait is shared with Pianist Zombie, but with unlimited times while this zombie plays only one time, even if more spawn.
• It can be killed by Chili Bean in the Chinese version.
  • As of an unknown update, this is no longer true.
• If poisoned by a Shadow-shroom, its light beam will become a shade of dark purple. The same will happen if stalled by a Stallia, except it will be light purple.
• If frozen by Iceberg Lettuce, it's light will become blue, and if it will give Plant Food when killed, it's light will occasionally flash green.
• In the Travel Log, it is mistakenly known as "Disc-tron 3000 Zombie". (Missing the O in "disco")
  • In the recent update, this has been fixed, and the word "Disco" is spelled correctly as "Disco-tron 3000 Zombie".
• This zombie would imply that at some point before 2323 (the year Far Future takes place), Disco came back.
• If shrunken by Shrinking Violet or Enforce-mint, the imps inside will not shrink to oblivion, unlike other Imps.

See also

• Mechanical zombies
• Disco Jetpack Zombie
• Dancing Zombie

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