@HappyEndings wrote:
You missed the point about Jimmy Cricket he was always around Pinocchio when he was a wooden boy and a real boy in the true story about Pinocchio so what happened to the Cricket ❓
My memory of the Disney movie is also a bit fuzzy, but I don’t believe Jiminy goes to Pleasure Island with Pinocchio. Also, they don’t follow the stories/movies word for word, plot point by plot point. In Once, it’s very possible that Jiminy was closer to Gepetto than Pinocchio (actually, he was. We know this. Even in SB, Archie is best friends with Marco, not August). They don’t need to work Jiminy Cricket into this storyline, it could simply be that Pinocchio, while out exploring the world and getting into heaps of trouble, was taken to NL by the Shadow. He was returned to the EF by the Shadow because Peter Pan didn’t want him in NL for the reasons I’ve already listed.