Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20140812173738/@comment-24674051-20141020181342

Henry not mentioning Frozen is not strange at all. A & E have confirmed that, from the characters perspective, Elsa is showing up somewhere in early 2013, which is well before the release of Frozen. So not even Emma and Henry would have seen the movie prior to returning after the Second curse was cast, because the movie (from their perspecitve) technically does not exist (at least not in its final state).

Now, as for Henry recognizing the Sorcerer's apprentice, that might be possible. But I get the impression that storybrooke was isolated during the first curse. Yes, they have technology (Cars, Flip phones, TV, PCs, CDs DVDs, DVRs... (STOP SAYING LETTERS!)), but I somehow think that the Disney films would have been filtered out from coming across. So most of the SB residents would not have been exposed to Disney, at least up to the point where the first curse was broken.

As I recall, it was Neal that made the comment to Mulan about the movies. Neal was from outside, and had the opportunity to see the movies. and Emma was the one to reference the Lion King (though by that point, the reference did not startle Mary Margaret and David.) So exposure of SB residents to their Disney counterparts is probably very limited. Even Henry would be limited, since he spent most of his life growing up in storybrooke.