Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27603417-20150629061625/@comment-24674051-20150629210113

I agree with Killian.

The LWM has been largly devoid of magic (though not totally absent), so when Rumple brought magic into the Bubble of Storybrooke, it took a bit for the magic to settle in and fill the space. Once the magic was there, it was there to stay, though, which is why it is still around when Snow casts her curse. Storybrooke is still in the same pocket, and Magic had been settled there for over a year.

At this point, everything within the bubble of Storybrook is saturated with Magic, and (at least for Storybrooke) Magic is no longer different. Now, if the bubble were to burst, and Magic enter into the rest of the LWM, it might take a while for that area to become saturated, meaning that Magic would work differently (ie, sporadically) for a while.