Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26620090-20160511134737/@comment-24674051-20160515183630

If they manage to cross the town line, I hope to blazes that either Emma or Regina restores Dopey from tree status. or at least transplants him back to the town so that they can deal with it later.

As for how? My hunch is that magic is continueing to grow (and maybe something that Gold did accelerated that growth) so that Dopey is now inside the magic line. But given that crossing the line causes a person to become a tree, noone ventures neart the line.