Meepit

Meepit
Type	Spooky Petpet
Release Date	August 30, 2001
Petpet Puddle

The Meepit is a woodchuck-like species of Petpet that has large unblinking black eyes, short front limbs, stout bodies, and large hind feet.

Despite their cute appearance, they have developed a reputation for being members of a large, malevolent circle with various postulated aims - including world domination - and an association with Dr. Sloth. This is spurred on by their unnerving, unblinking stare.

This perceived threat is likely intended to comically make up for their otherwise not scary appearance - on the face of it, a wide eyed, short-armed pink body is not typical of malevolent monsters. In the words of Donna, "anything that cute has to be hiding something."

A similar design to the Meepit was featured as the Pygmies in NeoQuest. In the game, Pygmies are a tribe of ferocious creatures that took over a research centre in Ancient Neopia, which eventually became known as the Jungle Ruins. Their portrayal as vicious creatures here may be the source of Neopias perceived fears.

Meepits can be combined with 2 different items at at the Cooking Pot: with the Fishing Kiko Gnome a Fishing Meepit Statue is created, and with Roburg 3T3 a Romeep 3t3. Meepits are featured in the games Meepit Juice Break and Meepit vs. Feepit.

Plot summaries

The Tale of Woe

Main article: The Tale of Woe

Ghost Meepits were central to the task of locating Ilere's home deep in the Haunted Woods. Users had to navigate their way through a maze of trees collecting all seven Meepits by feeding them Ghost Meepit Juice. After locating Ilere's front door, the Meepits had to be arranged on the spots of light until all seven started to dance. This would open the door and conclude the plot step.

Colours

The Meepit is currently available in 32 different colours:

Birthday - November 15, 2013 Blue - December 27, 2001 Chocolate - August 3, 2005 Christmas - December 6, 2002 Darigan - November 16, 2012 Disco - February 9, 2006 Dung - June 9, 2004 Faerie - March 19, 2003 Fire - September 2, 2003 Ghost - October 30, 2003 Glowing - July 1, 2009

Gold - August 3, 2005 Green - December 27, 2001 Grey - September 4, 2003 Halloween - November 1, 2011 Island - March 9, 2004 Jelly - August 3, 2005 Mutant - August 25, 2005 Pink - Default Pirate - August 4, 2005 Purple - August 27, 2014 Red - February 13, 2004

Robot - October 28, 2005 Royal - November 16, 2012 Snow - December 3, 2004 Starry - October 12, 2005 Stealthy - January 4, 2013 Strawberry - August 3, 2005 Tyrannian - May 12, 2005 White - September 15, 2003 Yellow - December 27, 2001 Zombie - November 1, 2011

Petpet Protection League

The Meepit has been selected for the Petpet Protection League award twice:

Week 37 Petpet Meepit Date March 18, 2004

Week 525 Petpet Zombie Meepit Date October 31, 2013

Trivia

• A real life Mini Meepit Plushie can be bought.
• On April 26, 2007, the regular news was replaced with an image of the Giant Meepit of Peace (Not Doom), with the words "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED" under it. However, in other languages, the message differed from this - for example, in German and Dutch, it was "It knows what will happen soon...Do you know?". This event was the introduction to the change to Neopets 2.0.
• The Neopedia article was added on August 23, 2007.

See also

• Games: Meepit Juice Break, Meepit vs. Feepit

External links

• Neopedia: Meepits
• NeoDeck: Brack, Cactus Farmer, Kreai, Gors the Mighty
• Neopets TCG: Maintenance Tunnels, Meepit, Juppie Juice, Meepit (2nd Print), Ghost Meepit, Dance of the Meepits
• Caption Competition: #304, #393, #430, #506, #523, #515, #528, #541, #553, #559, #567, #570, #574, #582, #587, #589, #603, #648, #659, #661, #672, #702, #716, #728, #735, #746, #750, #765, #773, #796, #800, #824, #858, #865
• How To Draw: The Meepit
• Petpet Spotlight: #25, #163, #225