First, let’s establish a time line. Now from canon we can go with the fact that Granny says in Red Handed:
Nearly threescore years ago, I was a child with six older brothers. Big as oak trees, all of them veterans of the Second Ogres War.
So sixty years before the curse the second Ogre War…
I think the reason we haven’t seen Mulan, Aurora, Phillip, or Lancelot filming in Storybrooke is because they’re in the same place as Emma and Snow.
I’m just basing that on some tweets I saw during the filming of episode 3 that said Lancelot, Mulan, Emma, and Snow were filming…
“Is yesterday we were just children Playing soldiers, just pretending Dreaming dreams with happy endings But now we’ve stepped into a cruel world”
jareau215 requested - AJ/JJ “Eyes Open” (Taylor Swift song)