Here are a bunch more pictures of various pieces of new Twilight merchandise from Wal-Mart. Besides some new shirt designs, there is a keychain/bag clip and the Twilight board game. Reader Jessica has this to say—

They have set up most of their displays. My store still hadn’t put out their smaller accessories yet. But they had several of the tees and they had a really good selection. I have attached what I did pick up there. They have the bags and what appear to be dog tag necklaces all at those great Walmart prices!

The mind boggling thing about my visit is that they were actually playing the movie!! You read correctly!! They were playing it on their big screen TV that they have in the Twilight area at my Walmart. Now I know that it’s not customary to do that and I was sort of in shock. I thought it might have been a promo piece or something, but it went through all the way to the credits and back to the main menu. There are probably going to be several people pulling up lawn chairs at their stores to watch.

Spotted any other gear we haven’t seen yet? Post a link to a picture in the comments!

Previously: Team Jacob Shirt, Twilight Messenger Bags. Thanks to Cecilia, Alana and Jessica for the pics!

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See the guy in the back over Taylor Lautner’s shoulder in this Punkd photo? That is none other than Tyson Houseman, and we can exclusively report this after discovering a post on his talent agency website that confirms it is true. On the website, he is listed with a role in New Moon, and it also includes a headshot that shows he is identical to the person in the photo, making this 100% certain. On the agency website, it lists his specialties as snowboarding, skateboarding & guitar and his acting experience so far has been solely stage work.

To update the wolf pack stories from earlier, we’re erring on the side of Bronson Pelletier and not Oliver James appearing in the photo from earlier. We’re certain that we made the right call and Alex Meraz is in the picture. That’s two, and perhaps three of the wolf pack with positive IDs!

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The New Moon set for Bella’s house has been found in Vancouver! Here are pictures and video comparing the house as shown in Twilight with the house they’re building on set in Vancouver to take its place. Lookin’ good! Check out the original post at Livejournal. (thanks, AW!)

UPDATE: Video is not working. Luckily I had made a screencap of it before it went down–this is all it shows, the set from the picture above from a different angle.

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Check out these pictures of Alex Meraz from his MySpace page. The one on the top right is from today’s New Moon set pictures and the one on the bottom right is from Alex Meraz’s MySpace page. I think, given these pictures, we can say with some certainty that Alex Meraz is one of the members of the wolf pack in New Moon alongside Taylor Lautner. Check out the Mystery Hottie’s resume–he’ll be giving Taylor Lautner a run for his money!

Alex Meraz, of the Purepecha (Tarasco) First Nation of Michoacan, Mexico was born and raised in Mesa, Arizona. There he taught at schools and community centers throughout the Phoenix Metropolitan area in all aspects of art from mask-making to break dance. As a graduate of the New School for the Arts, Alex has since further developed as a multi-faceted performer and artist. For 12 years Alex studied mixed martial arts, winning numerous tournaments in karate and capoeira, which led him to train with Andy Cheng as a stuntman. Highly sought after in the indigenous dance world, Alex has worked as a lead dancer with renowned choreographers Raoul Trujillo, Rulan Tangen, and Santee Smith, to name a few. Among his many accomplishments, he is also a founding member of Dancing Earth, directed by Rulan Tangen. His notoriety with Dancing Earth earned him the honor of being hand-picked for a troupe selected to represent the U.S. in a performance for the Royal Jordanian family in Amman, Jordan. With a vast range of talents, Alex’s skill in acting and the performing arts has allowed him to work alongside Colin Farrell, Christian Bale, and Director Terrence Malick.

Maybe, instead of after-hours guitar jams, they’re going to start a New Moon fight club with Taylor and Alex–that I would love to see!

UPDATE: I’ve tracked down the original detective on this as yellowgumdrop from IMDB. Good work!

Photo of Alex Meraz by Mihio Manus

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MTV has a new interview with Kristen Stewart up, and she touches on quite a bit of New Moon and Eclipse gossip, including the potential new director for Eclipse (she has no idea yet). Maybe most interesting is what she has to say about New Moon–

MTV: Kristen, the web was recently flooded with photos of you in Vancouver, doing pre-production for “New Moon.” What did you see up there that convinced you the sequel will be even better than “Twilight”?

Kristen Stewart: Everything! We’re sort of revamping. The look of the vampires has gotten that much better — now they just look clean and crisp. They’re beautiful, really. We’ve had all of our rehearsals, it’s pretty much done — all of the prep for the script, it’s solid. There’s no more work to be done, whereas a lot of times you’ll be on a movie and you scramble the night before and make sure everything’s done, and then you lose sequence of the whole thing because you don’t shoot in order. We’re set! It feels so good.

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Here’s a pic of the new $10 Team Jacob shirt from Wal-Mart. Reader ShannonInWonderland sent the pics in and she has this to say–

I was just at my local Walmart in Connecticut and they had a rack full of Twilight shirts. I bought the Team Jacob shirt, this is what it looks like: It’s actually made of a really nice material and its comfortable to wear (and personally I like it better than the Hot Topic ones haha).

They also had a Team Edward shirt (very similiar to the ones they have at Hot Topic, except the writing is all glittery), one with the “bad vamps” on it, one with the Cullen crest, one with that classic pic of Bella and Edward from the movie poster and then two plain shirts, one black and the other white that just had ‘Twilight’ written across the front

I really like this shirt. It’s gotta a retro-’80s Jaws vibe and I could even see a guy wearing it. I hate shopping at Wal-Mart, but I might have to make an exception for this one!

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