Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-3127757-20130311172927/@comment-5106672-20140925233440

Andrew.scott.503 wrote:

GothicNarcissus wrote: The Darlings were from our own world, as the magic bean took Baelfire to a Land Without Magic, while the writers confirmed Victorian England has magic (otherwise the White Rabbit could not travel there). Not necessarily true that our world is without magic. Rather it's very rare (or imported so to speak by curses\portals - e.g. Story Brooke. Also the 'Dragon' character in Hong Kong that August visited in hopes of curing his reverting back into a puppet, And finally a flying Monkey in NYC). I suspect that Victoria England Land is similar to our world in that respect (Magic is imported\rare, aka shadow/Pan), just has a different tech tree then us - steam punk based.

Also the white rabbit DID travel to our world to Story Brooke (and complained about blacktop being hard to break through) to fetch Will to help Alice in Wonderland as well as providing a portal for Alice to Story Brooke to fetch Will's heart which was secreted in his apartment wall. The Rabbit did travel to Storybrooke after magic was brought to town (the first time was the night the Wraith was unleashed by Mr. Gold). Storybrooke is a magic "enclave" in our world and magic exists within the town line, but not outside. Magic items carry their powers from other worlds, but magic wielders (such as the Rabbit) cannot use it because naturally there is no magic in our world. Otherwise Baelfire's bean would not take him here, and unleashing magic to town would not have such severe consequences as losing the Enchanted Forest memories unpon crossing the border.

(Note: how the Dragon was able to use magic in Hong Kong is unknown; perhaps his apartment was an "enclave" like Storybrooke, but I consider it one of the countless continuity errors or unexplained things that plagued the Neverland and pre-Neverland arc just for the plot's sake.)