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I think he knew his son was alive. And I don't think it makes him look Stupid. Everyone seems to forget that one key ingrediant is that, whereever Rumple lands, he wants his power with him. As he told Belle in "Skin Deep", "My power means more to me than you do!", and this attitude is also exemplified when Bae opens the portal and Rumple refuses to let go. In the end, his power meant more to him than even his son. And, other than rescuing Henry, his actions have ALWAYS been driven by that attitude.

Replicating a Bean portal would allow rumple to travel, but he would lose his powers in the LWM, which is exactly what he does not want. The Dark Curse is, so far, the only means known that gets Rumple to the LWM and still have access to his magic. He was actually hoping that by restoring Magic with the True Love potion, it would bring Magic to the entire land. That it only brought it to Storybrooke did not figure into his plans.

Slightly off topic comment: If the wand that Rumple has in TNPLH is the black fairy's wand, then the writer's created a big question mark. Because in Going Home, I thought it was clear that Blue had the wand (which she did), and has had it since stripping the Black Fairy of her powers. So if Blue has had it since taking it away from the Black Fairy, how did Rumple get it? The only obvious answer is that the Black Fairy got it from Rumple AFTER TNPLH, but that is going to bring into question the whole timing of when the Black Fairy existed, which I will admit has been left purposely ambiguous up to now.