How does the curse effect the rest of Maine?

[wizard55]

So there’s a whole town in Maine cursed that nobody leaves or enters unless they are magical as well, how does this effect the rest of the people in Maine? Is it like Harry Potter where the magic just makes them have the sudden urge to go around this area and take a different route? Would you just drive through the area and not be able to see any of the buildings, people, etc?

And I also wanted to mention the silly notion that a town even a small one like that could possibly have EVERYONE working in it and have a stable economy. You just HAVE TO HAVE out of town commuters, a thousand or so people can not all work in the same darn town. lol.

[ihr]

We don’t know how many peope live there, could be 2000-3000. no more.
I’m sure they have contacts outside of the town, how else would they have cars, computers, internet, food ect?.
but outsiders don’t stay.

[marilou]

on the show they have said a few times that the town is bigger that it appear, I was thinking more along the lines of 20 000 – 30 000 souls living there (a lot of fairy tale happen to one person in a villages, one village per story… more or less). Storybrook does have a port so my guess is that the goods (food, equipement and what not) arrives in container by boat, once it has arrive machinery takes care of unloading the boat (like in any other port in the world) so that the crew never has to leave the boat.

[PriceofMagic]

If Billy was a mouse, why was he brought over as anything but a mouse? Could he talk? Was he a magic mouse? Had he been turned into a mouse but was previously human?

How many other residents of Storybrooke are former creatures of fairytale land?

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[Myril]

@PriceofMagic wrote:

If Billy was a mouse, why was he brought over as anything but a mouse? Could he talk? Was he a magic mouse? Had he been turned into a mouse but was previously human?

How many other residents of Storybrooke are former creatures of fairytale land?

Wondering about the too for a while now. After all, they play around a lot with Disney versions of fairy tales and stories, and there are some with animal characters. In Disney’s Cinderella there is indeed a mouse named Gus, or Octavius, short Gus. He is saved in the beginning by Cinderella. Considering the mice of Cinderella can speak a bit of English, they might be magic mice, maybe even cursed or turned humans (the movie doesn’t say, but there is nothing in it speaking against that option). It would make sense, that Billy / Gus once has been a human, seeing how the curse worked on Jiminy Cricket.

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[wizard55]

Thinking about my theory again…what if someone was following August’s motorcycle down the road. does he just vanish in front of them once he reaches Storybrooke? lol. I’m so curious how the outsiders are effected. haha

[frumpybutsupersmart]

Seeing as most Disney movies had animals that could talk, I’d imagine that all the talking ones would have been brought over as humans, since there aren’t any talking animals in this world and it’d be weird having talking mice running around Maine. So, talking animals would be people, but normal FTL animals would just be animals, or just left there.

[Grimmsister]

this is fantasy, so not everything can be explained, when it comes down to something like this they can just blame it on magic- that makes anything possible 😉

But I like the idea of people from the outside always getting distracted, and taking a different route away from Storybrook as you mention.

I think Kitsis and Horrorwitz did say, we will see how the curse and the town effect outsiders at some point. So that will be very interesting.

[gigi]

Does SB even available on the map? I think the reason no people come to SB, and Neal hasn’t come to SB yet is because of that. I watched a commentary on youtube, and they said SB is like an island (Lost preference). In Lost, the island moves and never appears on the world map. I think this is also the same for SB too.

[fairycutie86]

Wizard55, I have a feeling none of your questions will ever be answered 😆 Though they are excellent questions, and things I’ve always wondered as well. I know it’s been stated that Storybrooke is larger than it appears, but yet, the show only shows us a few blocks of it (okay, obviously, they can’t show us the whole town for budget reasons).

And Storybrooke makes it seems like everyone has some type of job and that everyone has some form of money! You’d think Regina would be like, “I’m going to make you homeless, and you homeless, and you with a terrible job…”

I like the Hogwarts idea about the regular people of Maine paying no attention to the town. That’s the only plausible thing I can come up with. August was an inhabitant of the fairytale world, so I’m assuming that’s why he could see the town. Now, if Neal happens to want to come to town, maybe the “Hogwarts” idea might be explained through him, depending if he’s a fairytale character or just a regular guy. Maybe…I really don’t know. Just thinking out my thoughts.

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