Does Pinocchio exist in Storybrooke?
It's going to take a lot to convince me that Pinocchio exists in Storybrooke as a real boy or man because according to the rules of the curse, he wouldn't be.
The Evil Queen's curse took away all the Happy Endings in Fairy Tale Land, so wouldn't that take away Pinocchio's existence as a real boy?
We know that Marco (Geppetto's Storybrooke counterpart) tried to have kids with his wife, but never did, so we know that Pinocchio as any kind of being is absent from his life. Geppetto's Happy Ending is to have a son, so that makes sense. If having a wife was his Happy Ending, he'd have it, unless, it was and she died, but that doesn't make any sense because he was married to her at some point in his Storybrooke memories and/or past. There are no Happy Endings in Storybrooke, so it makes sense that Geppetto's Happy Ending is Pinocchio and therefore, he doesn't have him.
I think just as Jiminy was transformed from a human man to a cricket in Fairy Tale Land and then back to a human man in Storybrooke (being a free cricket was his Happy Ending), Pinocchio could have been reverted back to being a wooden boy when the curse swept them all up.
I want Pinocchio to be in Storybrooke, but I don't think he will be as a real boy or man. I think either a) Marco carves him as Geppetto would have or b) he might already be a wooden puppet in Mr. Gold's shop.