Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5106672-20141117061053/@comment-24674051-20141117160553

As for the Apple, that was discussed on a different thread. My thoughts on that is that it was not time travel at all. The apple fell from Snows hand when she took the bite and rolled away. being both magical and poison, it would not have decomposed during the time, nor would any animals have touched it (since animals instinctively avoid poisonous items), so she grabbed the apple from where it was in the current day which was exactly where it fell. No breaking of the laws of time here.

The other 2 issues both deal with travel to/from neverland. (toss in Killian as well). We may never get an explanation, but My guess is simply that time flows differently in Neverland, relative to the other realms, and that there is nothing constant about the flow of time.

Now, the issue that was NOT mentioned regarding possible timing issues. When Ingrid shows up in the LWM, it is in 1982, the year before the Dark Curse was enacted (by our reckoning). But, based on the interactions between the various characters, there had to be at least 2 years between when Ingrid Froze Anna and Kristoff and the enactment of the Dark Curse. Snow and David had not even met yet at that point, and had just had a baby when the Curse was cast. So did travelling through the portal cost Ingrid a year of time?