Plants vs. Zombies 2/Concepts

This page contains art and concepts of Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time. Please note that these aren't fake, but rather scrapped ideas, upcoming plants, zombies, worlds and unreleased features.

Concept art
There were some concepts for helmets and zombies in Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time. This also contains Viking and Stone Age Helmets, which could have been scrapped.

Trivia

 * The Spinner Carrot resembles Garlic Drone.
 * The Miner Zombie's ability resembles Digger Zombie's ability.
 * The Artichoke plant resembles the Artichoke plant in Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars.

Beet
Beet was originally going to be in this game, until Bonk Choy took its place.

Trivia

 * If it had not been scrapped, it would have been the first plant from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures to be added into Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time.

Fire Peashooter

 * For other uses, see Fire Pea.

Fire Peashooter is a peashooting plant. It was first found in the 2.3.1 update of Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time. The only way to obtain it is via hacking. It shoots one fire pea every 1.5 seconds. It is unknown whether or not this will be ever released, or if its final appearance and attacks will be anything like the current hacked plant.

Almanac Entry
DAMAGE: Moderate

RANGE: Straight

RECHARGE: Fast

Fire Peashooters shoot fire peas at zombies.

Plant Food Upgrade
Fire Peashooter shoots 60 fire peas for three seconds, similar to the Peashooter. it wears the Gatling Pea helmet, like the regular Peashooter.

Trivia

 * While using its Plant Food ability, it uses the same helmet as the Peashooter.
 * It is similar to the Flaming Pea from Plants vs. Zombies Adventures.
 * Unlike the Flaming Pea it has yellow eyes, instead of white eyes, the stem is all red instead of green, and a red leaf on the back of its head instead of fire.
 * The seed packet has its bottom leaves shown, unlike the other Peashooting plants.
 * According to the codes of the game, this plant was originally going to be in Dark Ages.
 * Its costume is the same as Peashooter's costume in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time.

Flower Pots
The Flower Pot was seen in concept art. It was going to be used in worlds without soil, similar to the Roof in the first game (Dark Ages, Pirate Seas, etc).

The pots were also upgradeable and had different tiers. For example the "hover pot" would allow plants to be planted on any surface. Eventually the concept was deemed to be too "tiring" and scrapped.

Penny's early name
Penny is referenced internally as "Winnie".

Deleted mushrooms
Before the release of the 2.3 update, some mushrooms were found in the code. These were later replaced by the new plants in Dark Ages.
 * Pult-shroom, would have lobbed more projectiles over time.
 * Vacuum-shroom
 * Roto-shroom
 * Dart-shroom
 * Scaredy-shroom
 * Zoom-shroom

Old Dark Ages Zombies
There were zombies of the Dark Ages, which were scrapped in version 2.3 and replaced by the new Zombies of Dark Ages.
 * Imp variants (dark_imp/cone/bucket/crown ) - According to their names, there it was going to have 4 variants: regular, conehead, buckethead and crown.
 * Thief Zombie (dark_thief ) -
 * Knight Zombie (dark_knight ) - Unlike the normal Knight Zombie,  it was going to have less health, approximately 21 HP and it was going to be able to deflect lobbed projectiles, similar to the Jester Zombie.
 * Barrel Zombie (pvza_barrel ) - According to its code it is very similar to Pharaoh Zombie, almost the same except it has different stats. It appears to be named after the Barrel Zombie in Plants vs. Zombies Adventures.
 * Blacksmith Zombie (dark_blacksmith ) - This zombie could make helmets for other Peasant Zombies, it had to first assemble 5 parts of metal and then it would make and give a helmet to the zombie that is closer to the player's house. The Blacksmith was later replaced with Zombie King.
 * Gravedropper Zombie (dark_gravedropper ) - Dark Ages variant of the Tomb Raiser Zombie from Ancient Egypt.
 * Wizard Zombie (wizard_zombie ) - Different than the Wizard Zombie in the final game, this version would have shot projectiles at plants. This element was reworked and combined with the beta knight zombie to form the Jester Zombie.

Beta gameplay
Before the release of the game, these are the pictures that were going to be used.

The Big Wave Beach
The sixth world of Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time is named The Big Wave Beach. It takes place in the 20th century. Some information remains and updates added more content for this world.

There is an unused description for the world and other various text

[WORLD_NAME_BEACH]   The Big Wave Beach

[WORLD_PREVIEW_BEACH_TITLE]   The Big Wave Beach!

[WORLD_PREVIEW_DESCRIPTION_BEACH]   Check out the beach, it's hot. Get it? Hot! (2.6.1 version.)

[WORLD_PREVIEW_DESCRIPTION_BEACH] Take a trip back to the 60's and hang 10 on the ocean waves! Tides are changing and wet zombies make it not so safe to go back in the water!(2.7.1 version)

[WORLD_PREVIEW_TEASER_BEACH]   +12 Levels! +3 Plants!

[WORLD_PREVIEW_BEACH_HIGHLIGHT_COUNT]   200! New items!

[PLAYERS_TRIP_TO_BEACH]   {PLAYER}'s Trip to the Big Wave Beach!

[BEACH_LEVEL_NAME] Big Wave Beach - Day

The Endless Zone of the Big Wave Beach is called "Coastal Calamity" in the files.

Plants
According to the files, some aquatic plants are returning. There are also some new plants that may soon become scrapped or used in future updates.
 * Lily Pad (lilypad): Let's you plant non-aquatic plants on top of it.
 * Tangle Kelp (tangledkelp): It appears to act like the Tangle Kelp in the first game. It instantly kills zombies next to it.
 * Coconut Bowler (removed) (coconutbowler): It bowls a Coconut that acts like the Wall-nut from Wall-nut Bowling.
 * Chomper (chomper): It devours a zombie whole, vulnerable while eating.
 * Bowling Bulb (bowlingbulb): Bowls zombies with bulbs.
 * Homing Thistle (homingthistle): It could possibly be a codename for Cattail because of its various similarities to Cattail.
 * 1. Cattail's spikes do home


 * 2. Cattail does shoot thistle-like spikes.


 * 3. Same Sun cost.


 * 4. Shoots thistles at the nearest zombie to the house, just like Cattail.


 * Guacodile (guacodile): Fire seeds of distance or it eats all zombies in its lane.
 * Banana Launcher (banana): It appears to work like the original Bamboom.
 * Bamboom (removed) (bamboom): Appears to work like the original Cob Cannon from Plants vs. Zombies. Player cam aim where he needs to shoot explosive shells heavily damaging zombies.

Bowling Bulb
Bowling Bulb is an upcoming plant for Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time. It rolls shots which can bounce off of multiple zombies. It launches bulbs that act similar to the Wall-nuts in Wall-nut Bowling.

Zombies
As of 2.5.1, there are zombies internally named beach, beach_armor1, beach_armor2, beach_flag, beach_imp, and beach_gargantuar. These are respectively: Basic, Conehead, Buckethead, Flag, Imp, and Gargantuar variants of this new world. There are also two new zombies, "beach_snorkel" and "beach_fastswimmer".

But as of 2.7.1, the zombies are-

beach - Beach Zombie

beach_armor1 - Beach Conehead

beach_armor2 - Beach Buckethead

beach_fem - Female Beach Zombie

beach_fem_armor1 - Female Beach Conehead

beach_fem_armor2.- Female Beach Buckethead

beach_snorkel.- Snorkel Zombie

beach_imp. -Beach Imp

beach_surfer.- Surfer Zombie

beach_gargantuar.- Beach Gargantuar

beach_fisherman.- Fisherman Zombie

beach_octopus- Octopus Zombie

Time Twister
Time Twister was originally in the game files and it could have been the last world, but it was later removed. Then it got replaced by another world called The Beach in the 2.4.1 update. It is unknown if this will re-added.

Unused code
These are unused power ups and upgrades and text files found in the code.


 * Collectible Bacon: It is unknown what it can do, But there are some text related to "Collectible Bacon" in the files.
 * Description : Collect Bacon. Because Bacon.
 * Flamethrower Power-Up: There is an unused powerup called "flamethrower" internally in the files. It creates a flame that occupies 4 tiles to the right.
 * Increase Power-Up Duration Upgrade: It can increase the duration of the power ups that are active.
 * Description: Increases the duration that your powerups are active.
 * Valuable Mowers Upgrade: It is an upgrade that can make the lawnmowers give two coins instead of one. It is found in the files.
 * Description : Drops more money for each lawnmower at the end of a level.
 * Unused zombies: There are unused zombies named "Zombie Pet" and "Cleopatra." It is unknown what they do.
 * Endless Mini-games are endless versions of Mummy Memory, Cannons Away and Not OK Corral.
 * Spring Parties Its description is "Celebrate The Springening!, New Garden Party levels EVERY DAY through 4/20", it was going to be playable but it went skipped, it is unknown if it will be playable the next year. There is also two zombies related to it, the Easter Imp and the Easter Gargantuar.

Unused Text
[ADVICE_PLANT_LILYPAD_ON_LILYPAD]Lily pads can't be planted on lily pads.
 * There is a line on the files about a message, that is shown if the player tries to plant a Tangled Kelp on a Lily Pad.
 * "[ADVICE_PLANT_TANGLEDKELP_ON_LILYPAD]   No planting Tangled Kelp on a Lilypad"
 * There is an unused description for Far Future.
 * "If Tacos were amazing before, then they have to be EVEN BETTER in the future! Has the Taco been perfected? Only time will tell."

[ADVICE_PLANT_LILYPADS_ON_WET]Lily pads can only be planted on wet sand and water.

[ADVICE_PLANT_MORE_LILYPADS]Try planting more lily pads!

Unused Tombstones
There are Tombstones in the code for Pirate Seas, Wild West and Far Future, and each world was originally going to have Tombstones, but this was scrapped and Tombstones were bestowed to Ancient Egypt and later Dark Ages, and there is also unused Dark Ages Tombstones which were not seen in the final version of the game.

Unused Cart and Tracks
These are unused Cart and Tracks that were originally going to be in each world, but was ultimately removed and they were bestowed to Wild West. However, in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time, Far Future Carts and Tracks are usable as they are essential for an exclusive mini-game.

Beta costs
Few of the plants have a different sun cost prior to its final release. All power-ups in Vasebreaker was going to cost 500 coins.
 * During the beta stages, a screenshot revealed that the original Sun cost for Threepeater was the same as it was in the original game; 325 Sun. Melon-pult had 300 sun cost like in the original game also, but their sun prices were switched to 300 for Threepeater and 325 for Melon-pult.
 * Prior to the Far Future update, Citron's original sun cost was 400 sun.
 * Infi-nut's original sun cost was 125 sun.
 * Bonk Choy's original sun cost was 175 sun.
 * Lightning Reed's original sun cost was 150 sun.
 * Laser Bean's original sun cost was 175 sun.

Unused Boosts
There are some unused boosts found in the code. They could be obtained in the Zen Garden. You could choose one of them but the idea was either scrapped or is reserved for a future update.

[BOOST_COMBAT_RAPID_FIRE]

Faster attack rate.

[BOOST_COMBAT_SHOVEL_BOMB]

Explodes when shoveled.

[BOOST_COMBAT_SUN_DISCOUNT]

Reduced sun cost.

[BOOST_DETAIL_BOUNTY_HUNTER]

'''Zombies defeated by this plant drop coins. This boost lasts for 1 level.'''

[BOOST_DETAIL_EXTRA_TOUGH]

'''Extra protection from zombies. This boost lasts for 1 level.'''

[BOOST_DETAIL_FAST_RECHARGE]

'''Recharges more quickly. This boost lasts for 1 level.'''

[BOOST_DETAIL_RAPID_FIRE]

'''Attacks at a faster rate. This boost lasts for 1 level.'''

[BOOST_DETAIL_SHOVEL_BOMB]

'''Explodes when shovelled. This boost lasts for 1 level.'''

[BOOST_DETAIL_SUN_DISCOUNT]

'''Costs less sun to plant. This boost lasts for 1 level.'''

[BOOST_TITLE_BOUNTY_HUNTER]

Bounty Hunter

[BOOST_TITLE_EXTRA_TOUGH]

Extra Toughness

Plantable In-game Marigold
Marigold was originally going to be an plantable plant in-game, but this idea was later scrapped and Marigold became only available in the Zen Garden. You can only make Marigold plantable through hacking as of now.