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So why don't you get on that raggedy carpet of yours and fly away?

—The Red Queen to Jafar src


The Flying Carpet is a vehicle and magical item featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the first episode of the spin-off series.

The flying carpet is based on the item of the same name from One Thousand and One Nights, and the magic carpet from the Disney film Aladdin.

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Reason: Trust Me (Before First Curse) & Season Six
Before First Curse

After Aladdin chooses not to use the shears to sever his Savior ties, he uses a flying carpet to reach the castle at the capital of Agrabah, where he saves Jasmine from Jafar. ("Street Rats")

While Jasmine is seeking to defend the capital from Agrabah from Jafar, she agrees to help a mermaid named Ariel reunite with her true love, Prince Eric, whose army can be the protection Agrabah needs from the sorcerer. The two women ride the carpet as they scour for Eric and eventually find his camp after Ariel spots caravan flag through a spyglass. ("A Wondrous Place")

At some point, Jafar comes to possess the carpet as his form of transportation. He rides the carpet while chasing a messenger who is hurrying through a desert on horseback, and the man unknowingly leads him to Aladdin. ("The Savior")

During Jafar's quest to break the laws of magic, his search takes him to Wonderland, where he tracks down the last genie needed for the spell, Cyrus. The Red Queen, allied with Jafar, pushes Cyrus into the Boiling Sea as a horrified Alice watches him seemingly die. However, before Cyrus falls into the scorching water, Jasmine's old carpet[1] catches him, saving his life. ("Down the Rabbit Hole")

After First Curse

After Alice's return to Wonderland to rescue Cyrus, Jafar flies the carpet to the balcony of the Red Queen's palace. He considers the Queen is not a worthy ally anymore and begins strangulating her, but when she boasts only she knows where Alice is, he lets her go. Jafar then goes back onto the carpet and returns to his lair to check on an imprisoned Cyrus. ("Down the Rabbit Hole")

Having forced an answer out of the Red Queen about the genie bottle's whereabouts, Jafar speedily rides his carpet to the Tumtum tree in Mimsy Meadows to unearth it. While still standing on the floating carpet, he summons a horde of blood scarabs to dig the ground near the tree, as Alice and Will watch nearby, unseen by him. ("Trust Me")

When Alice rescues Will from execution, the two escape into a maze, but Jafar uses his carpet to catch up with them before they can reach the maze exit. Jafar forces Alice into making the first of her three wishes by endangering Will's life, and as a further slap in the face to her, he turns Will into a stone statue, before taking off on his carpet. ("The Serpent")

Angered when Alice sees through his Edwin disguise, Jafar takes the real Edwin with him for a carpet ride and then dangles him in front of Alice. The sorcerer eventually drops his hold on Edwin, who almost plummets to his death, if not for Alice using another wish to whisk her father to safety in Victorian England. Satisfied over once again forcing Alice's hand, Jafar smugly departs on his carpet. Later, at Jafar's lair, the old prisoner attempts to kill himself in front of Jafar by jumping into a pit, only for the carpet to save him. ("Bad Blood")

In his fury over discovering the Red Queen gave him a fake genie bottle, Jafar collects one of her hairs to create a spell to get back at her. He then flies away from her castle on his carpet, and once he is far away enough, he decimates the entire building with fire magic. ("Home")

After the laws of magic are broken, Amara and Alice use the carpet to rush an injured Cyrus out of the castle and to the refuge of the White Rabbit's house. ("And They Lived...")

Trivia

On-Screen Notes

Props Notes

  • The flying carpet prop also doubles as a rug in Neal's apartment in "An Untold Story," where it is seen lying under the coffee table. This can also be glimpsed in the previous episode, "Only You."

Appearances

Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.

References

  1. ↑ File:W107FlyingCarpet.png
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