Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4936165-20140827005907/@comment-6175354-20140917115137

Dan Fox wrote: Well at that time, her staff was the thing that risked blowing the OUAT budget, so they couldn't make her transform into a dragon until the right time/had the show been a success which it had become a success by the end of the season. When OUaT finally did tranform Maleficent into a dragon, they had Emma defeat her pretty quickly. I think, Maleficent was more powerful in her youth.