Assuming that Emma’s been turned to stone in her Bug, (which I’m pretty sure of, especially if they’re gonna have Henry unknowingly drive past that statue)
Yeah, they may use that statue story, but actually the real statue is equal to that one, that is not something created just to use on OUAT, that is a replica that has the same Troll and Car in Seatle, so is probably just something created to say that they are really in Seatle,
Yeah I know it’s a statue that’s actually in the real Seattle. But there would be MANY statues and other recognisable landmarks around Seattle that they could have recreated in order to make their version of Seattle look like the real thing. It’s not a coincidence that they happened to choose the statue of a troll and a VW Bug. In fact, I have to wonder if that statue (the real life one) is actually the reason they chose to set S7 in Seattle of all places. Like, someone in the writers’ room knew that this statue of a VW Bug trapped by a troll existed, and then they decided to build Emma’s fate around that, and as an extension of that, that’s why the story is now happening in Seattle.
I was thinking something like this as well. It isn’t just a coincidence that they are using that landmark.