Good point. It would explain how August could be a character like Pinocchio and end up making his way to SB without having to get there via the magic tree.
It would make me wonder whether Regina has considered whether there was another way into and out of SB since she used the hat and the doors to travel between lands before.
It seems a bit anti-climatic now that I think about it. She made such a big deal about the fact that she was going to send all the characters to another place where they wouldn’t remember who they are and where she would take away their happy endings. Well, so far none of them seem to have had super happy lives in FTL and it seems that going to other lands was already possible so, really, the only big deal about the curse was forgetting who they really are???