Stahlop wrote:
Timeline:
Alice is 10, which also makes Emma around 10 at this point. Alice was conceived the night Regina was defeated and couldn’t cast the curse. So only 10 years have passed since the curse didn’t happen. We haven’t reached the point yet where Regina came to the Wish Realm. That’s not for another 18 years or so. Rumple didn’t get released until Regina came.
That’s basically right, but I’d add about four years to your estimate, so Regina came to the Wish Realm about 22 years after the events in this episode, if Alice was 10. They stated in the Season 6 finale that Henry was supposedly 14 years old. Since he was not much younger when Regina went to the Wish Realm, we know that trip occurred when Emma was about 32, which would be 22 years after she and Alice were 10.