Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-6252544-20130724184245/@comment-5106672-20130927150524

Budloopy4 wrote: Magic probably, and I feel like this season would have had more of a twist if he had his old skin and eyes, because he almost has a different personality when he is rumple opposed to mr. Gold. Well, I don't think he'd revert to totally being Rumple, even if he had his scaly appearance back. He'd still be both Mr. Gold and Rumple anyways.

I think the real reason is it would be a hell of a work to do his make up for *every* scene, as opposed to flashbacks only. They just have to put a word to explain it "in universe".