Just something I know.  I started thinking out Riigo-Faloo as a cartoon TV show idea, which will hopefully be made eventually.

The Lord of Arkenvoul doesn't become important or even part of the story really until probably around very close to the end of a climactic story-arc at the end of the story.  He temporarily becomes a sort of sub-nemesis of the heroes before the arch-villain.

Though, he's not a very interesting character, he's rather more of a nameless heavily armoured obstacle with a stash of magical weapons.

But, speaking of villains, will this cinematic universe have a primary villain?
Also, I'd love to have some more details on Vertigo.  Is he a villain or a hero?  And what does he do?

This looks really cool. I really wish I had something to contribute, but so far I haven't made much of a universe for my brickfilms to be in. I'd love to help out/participate though!

I'm very pleased people are interested in Mr. Vertigo.   He is definitely a hero, though, not a villain, and often turns up in the most unlikely places to help people. Using his interdimensional powers, he has the ability travel long distances very fast and use teleportation-like powers, and tends to randomly pop up in one place and suddenly disappear.  He does have something of a trickster-like personality, though.

As for building Mr Vertigo, I didn't think of the Graduate Cloak.  I guess because I got the Vampire torso in a LEGO store (sadly, I don't have the awesome Vampire cape ) I took it for granted that these parts would be fairly easy to find.  If you don't have that cloak, just use a standard black cape or nothing at all.  For the body, the Monster Fighters vampire torso or any black formal suit would work well if you don't have that particular body.

Regarding his backstory, I still am working on some details, but he was a great wizard in his world.  However, the evil emperor Eskil the Vile, who hated wizards, banned magic and started hunting down practitioners of magic.  Mr. Vertigo became a key member of the Wizard Resistance who fought against Eskil.  However, he was caught in a great battle inside the Great Tower of Ooo (named after the first Grandmaster Wizard who founded the Order of Wizards).  Inside the tower there is a powerful device which allows travel between dimensions.  During the fight it was damaged and went haywire, zapping Mr. Vertigo and sending him into different dimensions.  This gave him his weird teleportation powers and is why he has a tendency to appear and disappear somewhat randomly.  So basically, he's a hero who helps people and does good with his powers, albeit a bit haphazardly--a bit like the Doctor.

However, I do have a character who is actually quite similar to Mr. Vertigo, who would work great as a main villain.  He's called Mr. Smiley:

He may look innocent and harmless, but don't be fooled--he's one of the most evil, malevolent and deranged villains ever to inhabit the universe.  Very few people have seen him, and even fewer have survived the encounter.  His deadly fighting skills and hypnotic gaze are more than a match for any hero.  It is only through the intervention of several brave heroes that so few of his evil plans have been realized...

Well, I went slightly overboard there with the the detail, hope you guys don't mind.  I've been working on several other characters, so hopefully I'll be able to post those soon.

OK, will do.  By the way, though I like the concept of Melthusax, wouldn't having a being this powerful kind of limit the stories in some way, as he can do pretty much anything?  Unfortunately though I couldn't build him since I have none of those pieces, even the brown hood/cloak.

I like the idea of a portal travel monopoly too.  Perhaps you could have some corporation in control of the realm paths, who then often charge extortionate prices for people who want to use it.  A bunch of heroes then try to find alternative realm paths and come into conflict with said corporation.  It's just a really random idea that popped into my head though.  Incidentally, what are Relicjacks?  Whatever they are, they sound awesome.

Incidentally, I could easily build Squid, and also any of the Pirates Rule! crew in the picture (though Jahk would have a dark red rather than red bandanna).  However, I only have one each of the Pirate Captain/Blue Waistcoat torsos so I could only have one or two characters on screen together at the same time.

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A while ago I made a cast of hipsters I was planning on using for a sort of sitcom thingy. I could add these things when I get time, in case someone wants to make jokes at the expense of hipsters

I really don't think I can build your brown robe guy.  My rendition would be way too far off the mark.

I can build that smiley bloke, though.

A relicjack is in individual who jacks relics ("jack" is Faloovian slang for take, steal, grab, or snatch).
In order for the Lord of Arkenvoul to let you travel through the Realm of Arkenvoul, you must pay a toll.  The Lord of Arkenvoul is extremely powerful and has no need of currency, so instead you must pay with a relic.  It has to be some sort of unique and extremely powerful magical artifact, such things can be found in almost any realm, but they are all extremely rare, so most people don't have them.
There are some individuals extremely desperate for realm transit, and they have no relics to pay the toll, so they instead come to Arkenvoul to steal a relic from another traveler and use it to pay the toll.  It is surprisingly easy to find a relic in Arkenvoul because around half or the travelers come to Arkenvoul carrying them, and it's a lot easier to jack a relic than find one in your own realm.

The Lord of Arkenvoul doesn't really care if people in the Outlands are all fighting each other over relics, because they'll all come to him in the end anyway.

The most prominent relicjack in the story is a weird guy with a gigantic grin filled with needle teeth, red eyes, a wide brimmed hat, a red scarf, and knife fingers.

However, the whole Arkenvoul thing would never work very well with a guy like Virtigo, and it's more supposed to be a Faloovian problem.

I really like this idea of a cinematic universe for brickfilms! I've actually had a shared world/universe place for all of my brickfilms for a while. As in, all of the brickfilms take place in the same world, but sometimes in different periods. For example: the Outposters takes place several hundred years before the events of BIRDFaCE or Flying Low. Most of the birckfilms take place in the city of Brick-cinnati. Though, this is the only city in the world whose name is inspired by a real one.

I also frequently use similar minifigs in multiple videos in different ways. A character who is in the background for one video may be the main protagonist in the next. That aspect hasn't been used too much yet, but I want to use it more in the future.

I'm pretty open with having my world/universe (which I have yet to properly name, so any suggestions would be nice) participate in this crossover.

As for the villain, I think the best thing we could do is have a character who has a relatively common head piece, and can frequently change clothing, so as to fit the collections of the animator.

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That's actually a really good idea.  He/she/it could be the minifig form of a great evil entity, which is always lurking in the background type thing.  Shapeshifting would allow the different filmers to give their own interpretation of the character, which would add a lot of creativity to the BFCU.

And LEGO Universe was an awesome game.

Screw it, I'm going to start scripting my Jonny Thunder interactive adventure. Probably won't be able to start animating till' next year, but at least I can plan and get voice actors.

I'll make sure its still in-canon (though, it'll probably only be loosely tied to the universe). I'll probably have two endings: the real one and a joke one. The joke one will probably end with them all about to die in a really anti-climactic way or something like that ("Maybe we should have picked the option that DIDN'T have spikes!")

I intend to keep the tone light and family-freindly (but I'm afraid I can't resist the occasional bit of dark-humour). Since Johnny Thunder is basically the LEGO Indiana Jones, it'll kinda be a spoof of those films - but I'll try to make it not too obvious and able to stand by its own merits.

Part of me wants to bring Mr Socially Impaired into this universe as sort of a Deadpool-like character - but I think he's a bit too insane for this...