Meepit
The Meepit is a spooky Petpet released on August 30, 2001 with large unblinking black eyes, short front limbs, stout bodies, and large hind feet. The Petpet's description is: There is something awfully spooky about those big staring eyes…
Despite their innocuous appearance, they have developed a reputation for being members of a large, malevolent circle with various postulated aims - including world domination and miscellaneous association with Dr. Sloth. This is spurred on by their consistent, unblinking stare that is often seen as unnerving.
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.
However, the Meepit was originally introduced on October 15, 2001 in NeoQuest I, as the members of a tribe of beasts called Pygmies. In the game, the ferocious creatures 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.
The Meepit has a rarity of 98, making it a very rare and expensive Petpet, costing around 3 million Neopoints at the Trading Post as of June 2007. It can also 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.
Plot summaries
NeoQuest I
- Main article: NeoQuest I
Years before the NeoQuest Hero appeared, pygmy tribes were taken to the research centre (which would become the Jungle Ruins), and lived in the jungle surrounding it. they were peaceful at first, but become violent, and were held back until Rollay Scaleback struck a deal with Kreai to help him overthrow his masters. The pygmies helped and eventually betrayed him, and have made the ruins of the research center their home. The hero has to fight with 8 types of pygmies: vulgar pygmy, shaman, greater shaman, pygmy chief, pygmy warrior, pygmy sage, pygmy elder and a skeletal shaman.
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
As of June 2008, the Meepit comes in 24 different colours...
Trivia
- As of June 2008, Meepits are featured in 32 different items including two only available in the NC Mall.
- A real life Mini Meepit Plushie can be bought.
- The Meepit was featured in Week 37 of the Petpet Protection League.
- 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
- Famous Meepits: Gors the Mighty, Kreai
- Games: Meepit Juice Break, Meepit vs. Feepit
External links
- Petpet Puddle: Meepit
- 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