Enchanted Forest (Once Upon a Time)

*This is an article about the location from ABC's Once Upon a Time. For the location of the same name from Frozen II, see Enchanted Forest.*

**The Enchanted Forest** also referred to as **Misthaven** is a location from the ABC television series *Once Upon a Time*.

## Description

The television series Once Upon a Time is almost certainly non-cannon to the parks (or even film) mythos as its main premise is being a reimagining of a variety of Disney properties.

### Television

The Enchanted Forest is a massive land located in a realm referred to as Fairy Tale Land although, "The Enchanted Forest" is sometimes used pseudonymously for the realm. Its realm personifies a great number of entities from fairy-tales, folklore, mythology and family media albeit interconnected and often heavily altered with intertwining plots, composite-characters and perverse twists.

Other locations within, "Fairy Tale Land" include the likes of: Agrabah, Arendelle, Camelot, Atlantis, DunBroch and "The Empire" which resembles feudal China. In the universe of Once Upon a Time, there are many different realms which operate off of different laws of nature and which can be accessed from one another. Other notable realms connected to the Enchanted Forest include: Neverland, Wonderland, the Land without Magic (the, "Real world" in a 21st century), Victorian England, "Land without Colour" (Gothic-horror and Universal monster movies), Oz, and the, "Land of Untold Stories" which is a melting-pot for characters and entities left abandoned by the prior mentioned realms.

#### Features

* **Bald Mountain**:
* **The Dark Castle:** The Dark Castle was the home to, "The Dark One", Rumplestiltskin. It possessed a variety of magical artifacts along with sentient furniture which possessed the bound souls of his enemies.
* **The Forbidden Fortress:** This was a castle used by Maleficent.
* **Frontlands:**
* **Pleasure Island:** Pleasure Island is a land of temptation which disguises itself as a carnival-like locale for luring away children. The island can only be accessed by those in possession of a ticket and has connections to Neverland.

##### Cinderella's Kingdom

* **Castle**:
* **Tremaine Estate**:

##### Snow White's Kingdom

* **Sherwood Forest**: This was a forest nearby the queen's castle which was known for being the hideout for the Merry Men and their leader Robin Hood who were often sought after by the Sheriff of Nottingham.
* **The Queen's Palace**:

### Disney Parks

In the Disney Parks, "The Enchanted Forest" is seemingly used to refer to a magical geographic location which either personifies a multitude of different locales or which magically connects these settings.

## Appearances and allusions

### Disney Springs

A gate-change poster in the market-place co-op mentions an airline connecting the Enchanted Forest to the town of Disney Springs, Florida along with the ID, "SB 2011" referring to Storybrooke and the 2011 release of the show. Given the show's continuity however, it is unlikely that this is referring to the forest from Once Upon a Time within lore.

### Fantasyland

Both Fantasyland in the Disney Parks and the Enchanted Forest of Once Upon a Time portray a similar, anachronistic, melting-pot hybrid of different fairy-tale settings. In the Magic Kingdom, the name, "The Enchanted Forest" is used to refer to a forested area of Fantasyland which combines the settings for: *The Little Mermaid* (late 18th/early 19th century Scandinavia or Mediterranean)*, Beauty & the Beast* (late 18th-century France)*, Alice in Wonderland* (Victorian England and realm of Wonderland)*, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh* (1920s England)*,* and *Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs* (c. late middle-ages to 16th/17th century modern Germany) along with tributes and connections to *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea*. This area is also accessed via the courtyard of Cinderella Castle, itself also set in 18th century France.

## Connections

### Haunted Mansion

An alternate depiction of Madame Leota appeared in her shop *Memento Mori* in this show as a member of the Coven of Witches.

### Pirates of the Caribbean

A fictionalized Blackbeard (referred to as Black Beard) was a recurring antagonist in the show and prominent pirate within the Enchanted Forests with an appearance resembling that which he bore as the Captain of the Wicked Wench.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.mainstgazette.com/2017/10/gate-change.html