The Peninsula Daily News takes an interesting look at the changing face of Forks from sleepy timber town to burgeoning tourist destination with the success of Twilight. The town recognizes all the fans visiting, and has started to offer advice just for the Twilight visitors–

Visitors can pick up a colorful map of the action sites in the book and go off on a self-guided tour, hoping to catch sight of the occasional vampire (on a cloudy day) or a werewolf (non-seasonal).

Their fantasy is fed by the Chamber of Commerce-run Visitor Information Center, where mail for the vampire Cullen family is being saved and where props for exciting photos are treasured and shared.

Directions to other activities and information on Olympic National Park, the former big draw, are offered as well.

Residents are showing a tolerant, slightly amused face to visitors and often recognize the plight of their photo-happy visitors and offer to snap a picture of a group of tourists.

Check out the rest of the article at the Peninsula Daily News. Also, check out a fan’s trip report to Forks, as well.

[thanks, TeamSpaceHeaters!]

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New Moon vamp Nikki Reed turns 21 today. Here’s wishing best to our Rosalie Hale! The Twilight Examiner has a nice little bio in honor of her birthday.

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New Moon star Robert Pattinson revealed that he had quite a disturbing experience with some fans that took his fictional character a bit too far–

“One time there were these four girls – in Chicago I think – and they had all scratched their necks until they bled, and then when they came up to me they had these bleeding scabs. It was gross.”

All I have to say is–eww!

Robert Pattinson says fans are ‘gross’

[thanks, DeAnna!]

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