Meepit plushie! I had a meepit obsessed phase as a kid and always wanted a plushie, but Neopets plushies just didn't exist here! I still haven't found an official meepit plushie without ridiculous postage, so I finally made my own. This one was made with old scrap fur from a fluffy pencil case.
The Meepit's got a pretty straightforward design, being effectively a guinea pig except bipedal and pink, but the thousand-yard stare is certainly memorable. In all honesty, while the design and expression is perfectly good, I think this one owes a lot of its popularity to basically getting meme'd to hell and back by TNT.
It's calmed down a bit over the years (reaching its peak during the Viacom era), but it used to be that you could barely go a day without TNT making a reference to this thing. The running joke being that Meepits were secretly evil and plotting to take over the world, though in all honestly it was also just a meme to use them in everything wherever possible, especially if you could make them vaguely ominous in some way shape or form.
Visually, Meepits are pink by default with no body markings. This isn't a problem with petpets compared to full-on Neopets seeing as petpets are constrained to a tiny 80px image size, and something about the simple design just makes the dead-eyed stare all the funnier.
Favorite Colours:
Zombie: Alright yeah, this one's eyes and expression are spot-on, plus the bandages and texture are well-done. 10/10 no notes.
Snow: The coal eyes on this one are perfect, as are the little wood chip teeth. The snow texture is also pretty realistically rendered.
Halloween: Appropriately for a spooky petpet, the Halloween Meepit is pretty great. In addition to a cape and extra-intense red eyes, the incisors have been changed into two sharp little fangs, which is a great play on the original design.
A little Meepit I modeled in Blender, 3D printed, and hand-painted.
If you are curious about how I made it, you can watch my little process video on Instagram here =)