The Hogwart idea has something.
Can think of different effects:
– no one can visit or even see Storybrook who doesn’t know it’s there – but that would make supply with modern goods somewhat difficult
– if someone from Storybrook invites non-fairy-tale related or non-magical people from the outside to come, they will be able to see and visit Storybrook, but after leaving eventually forget about it – would at least solve the problem with trade with the outside world
– anyone can come to Storybrook, but only those in some relation to Storybrook people or FTL (like August, Emma, Henry) can remember after they’ve left
– the curse made Storybrook an unquestioned part of this world, no one and nothing gives away that it hasn’t been there 28 years ago
Henry used a credit card in Boston, either the cab driver experienced some nasty surprise an didn’t get the money, or money transfer between Storybrook and the rest of world does work. Same goes for the service Henry used to find his mother. How did Henry get into the Bus, does the bus stop regularly in Storybrook? And we know Kathryn Nolan had contact to people in Boston, although only via mail / phone.
Our world is, or has been the world without magic, we assume, but has it ever been explicitly said? Just wondering. For sure it’s not a world without magic anymore.
Must have taken a huge amount of magic to just build the town, not to mention to keep the people in it in a kind of mental haze and frozen in time, and to set up their alternative identity. Possible it draw a lot of magical energy from Fairy Tale Lands, thus destroying most of it (in the sense of depleting it powers, turning it into a wasteland). Maybe an existing town was used, the people replaced by the folks of FTL and their identities stolen (and those people now live in some inbetween world with no way back). But then any relatives of these people living outside the town would become a problem.
Did Regina or Rumpelstilskin know anything before about our world? How? Did Regina create everybody’s new life / identity as Jefferson suggesst, or was it part of the curse and thus not really in her control? Some complicate curse it was, that much we know.
Ah, magic, can give one a headache. 🙄
Fans can be a bunch of gadflies. 😆
Reminds me of a little girl wondering, why fairy tale princesses never have to look very urgently for a bathroom.
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