Can you imagine anyone besides Robert Pattinson delivering the line to Bella, "It's my job to protect you"? Well, that almost happened.

RPatz spills to the Daily Mail that after playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter, he wanted no parts of a worldwide successful franchise. "At first I didn't want to do a movie like Twilight. I specifically hadn't done anything that anyone would see since Harry Potter because I wanted to teach myself how to act. I didn't want to be an idiot."

We get that Rob wanted to hone his acting skills before venturing back into auditions for major parts, but roles like Edward Cullen won't exactly come around every day.

"I was going to wait for another year to do two or three more little things and then do something bigger. Twilight came kind of randomly. It was a chance and as I didn't have a reputation at all, there was nothing for me to lose."

Glad you went for it, Rob!

The real life Edward Cullen and Bella Swan could soon be invading your TV screen.

According to TheWrap, a television producer is hoping to create a reality show based on Forks, the small town in Washington that is the setting for the Twilight series.

But unlike the books, you won't see any vampires or werewolves on the episodes.

"We're not going up there looking to cast people who have claims to the supernatural," Gauthier reveals. "We want people who have a true connection to the community. We want to avoid people with outlandish claims."

Summit Entertainment has released the first official movie still from Eclipse! Twi-hards may have already seen this photo in People magazine, which featured it in its special New Moon issue in November, but now we've got the pic straight from the source.

Here Edward and Bella are looking longingly into each other's eyes in a field of flowers, much like in Bella's dream scenes in New Moon. In Eclipse, Bella will have to choose between Edward and Jacob, a decision that could awaken the war between the vampires and werewolves.

Eclipse hits theaters next summer on June 30. We can't wait!

Did the Volturi leave Italy to frantically scour the United States for Edward Cullen and Jacob Black? Doubt it. But a whole lot of Twi-hards are on the hunt for the, err tallest, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner memorabilia they can find.

Alert the authorities: life-size New Moon posters of the hottie vampire and beefed-up werewolf are missing from Burger Kings in Maine, Delaware, and Montana. Seriously!

"The girls just walk up in the middle of the day, rip off the posters, and run," a BK rep said.

"We've had to replace them over and over."

Who can blame these fans? We want one, too. But we'll ask Santa to check out Amazon.com for ours. For about $30, Bella Swan won't be the only girl who has a vampire watching her sleep every night.

You might think that hardcore New Moon fans went to see the movie at midnight. But the really, really hardcore fans actually went to the movie at 9:30 p.m. last night.

Fans who bought $50 or more of Nordstrom BP merchandise at select Nordstroms across the country during the last month got a ticket to an advanced screening of the flick last night BEFORE the midnight showing.

Were you one of the savvy shoppers?

We hit up the Tyson's Corner screening outside of Washington, D.C. where over 4,000 tickets were sold for Thursday night and we brought along our Nordstrom cardboard cutouts of Edward Cullen and Jacob Black to see what fans would do when they ran into them in the theater lobby.

Check out the hilarity that ensued in the video below - and fan reactions to the film. Let's just say that Edward and Jacob cutouts + a few hundred Twilight fans = a pretty funny night at the movies.

Want a cutout of your own? Check out all the Nordstrom New Moon merchandise (including Forks High School graphic tees) at Nordstrom.com.

The words 'Jacob Black Barbie' don't really go together.

But Summit Entertainment tweeted today that Mattel has released a Jacob Barbie to go with the Bella Swan and Edward Cullen Barbies we first wrote about back in August.

Somehow we don't think Taylor Lautner will be pleased with the Barbie version of himself. He has no shirt! True, he doesn't have one on for most of the movie, but after his recent comments about not wanting to appear shirtless in another movie for a while, you've got to assume he wishes his Barbie came with at least a tank top.

Is the Twilight merchandise getting out of hand? There's an iphone app, a clothing line, Burger King cards, Edward and Jacob water bottles...what's the weirdest Twilight merch you've seen in stores? Leave a comment!