Leap of Faith Blind Box (Series 1)

Fun little builds but wish they had a little more detail in the building portions! I will definitely get any future series!

I love them all. I found it an odd choice to include Shay in this first round, but I’d love to see Connor on a tree as viewpoint, Ezio from Revelations, Aya, Naoe, Kassandra, Evior so pretty much all the rest of them. I’d love to see an Assassin’s sanctuary in Monteriggioni. Could have all the seals on little disk bricks like the compass. Keep up the amazing work.

It is great. Better to buy the whole set. My top book shelf is now complete.

I enjoyed these builds. Small sets that I could build on breaks at work. It was fun seeing which set I would get when opening them. Some of the builds were really cool while a few were simple.

I knew I had to jump at the chance for so many of the classic protagonists (and also Arno, I suppose). Even with relatively limited piece counts per box, each Leap of Faith viewpoint EXPERTLY captures the architecture of each setting appropriately, instantly recognizable as someone who has played all of the games. This unique design for minifigures REALLY won me over, even as soon as I opened the first of them. They are charming and SO detailed with printing in such small places; truly, no effort was spared to make these the best they can be. There's all even a respectably high level of exclusivity in these; even repeat characters Ezio and Edward have unique pieces or combination of pieces, respectively. All of the characters are instantly recognizable, and is an intuitive choice for this first series; even poking fun at Arno earlier, I think he was a good inclusion, as Unity's biggest fans are ENTHUSIASTIC about it, and Arno's default blue robes do add great visual variety. I do have a few minor nitpicks, but nothing that felt worthy of knocking a star off of the rating, as I think they are still a 5-Star display piece, especially if you place them on a high shelf so they can synchronize your room correctly. For the builds, two towers use bright orange window inserts, which did feel uncharacteristically bright, when slightly more muted colors would have been more appropriate for the periods. For the characters, Shay came with only a hood—which, to be fair, matches all of the marketing material—and it would have been nice to have his hair as well since the depicted in-game outfit lacks a hood; Ezio is missing his single right-hand glove, something The Book of Ezio's minifigure got correct; and finally, it would have been nice for all characters to have both standing and squatting legs, since I don't know when or if any of the characters will get full sets and opportunities for such (though I can certainly hope!). All in all, though, I was blown away; builds are distinct and interesting, bricks have excellent clutch power to stay together, and the characters are so fantastic to have.

So I'm hoping this review can settle doubts alot of people may have about these sets and the wiseblock brand of Alt-Bricks. To start this listing does include the 6 distinct "styles" sets shown in the preview picture. I found these on Amazon sold individually but as far as I can tell Amazon is the only other storefront with these sets and this is the only way to guarantee no duplicates. The first and most important thing is figure quality. They are Great! I have seen online discussion from alt brick communities where the overall opinion from people who don't own these sets is negative. Thats due to the mixture of visual styles, where these sets evoke a Playmobil mixed with L3go mini doll aesthetic. I won't say that is wrong. I think these figures offer a mixture of those styles with a splash of Kreo thrown in. Overall I think it outdoes the majority of Alt Brick figures. If you don't like anything whatsoever not from L3go then these won't do it for you. But on their own I believe they are far better and of a higher quality than the likes of Lumibricks or dead kreo. They possess the caricature charm of L3go, which something like Mega/mattel lacks with their old mini action figures. The print quality is great and the feel of the plastic is really nice. This goes for the builds as well.

Overall once I had the first set built I was beyond pleased with the figure and the build. The only issue I have is the arms and legs. The figures have two arm and hand styles and two leg styles. Spread eagle and regular for the arms, then articulated standing and fixed kneeling for the legs. However, each figure only comes with one style of arms hands and legs. This is very limiting. What's more the arms appear locked in the torso once attached. What this means is that customization or poseability are limited to what is included and available in other sets. For instance, there is no current way to get bayek articulated standing legs. Or to get Altair arms and hands that can grab accessories.
This means you are limited to what you get. In order to give Ezio in black robes the ability to kneel, stand, grab onto accessories or hold is hands out ready to leap, you have to buy both Ezio's blind box tower and the Book of Ezio set.

I think Wiseblock has shown they are willing to make alot of different characters with different prints, but limiting the end users "playability" within the set of bricks and parts wiseblock has is distinctly Unwise. Especially since we may never see a full set with Arno, shay, bayek etc.
The only recommendation I would have for Wiseblock is to include extra arms and both sets of legs in each set. These are produced in China, sold at $28usd per set. Each set with around 100 pieces. That is a crazy high profit margin and a high price per piece. Including a set of alternate arms and legs for each figure is not likely to affect their profit margins beyond a few cents, unless Ubisoft takes an insane cut of the profits. Considering this is a Ubisoft licensed produce and given Ubisoft's inability to dedicate themselves to anything that isn't micro-transactions and bad decisions, the future of this brand and these sets all depends on how well they sell and how well the future remakes of AC sell. Given the major sets are all from Black flag and AC2 it is clear that either wiseblock knows what the community likes and wants or that Ubi directed them to focus on those games first.

Overall hopefully Wiseblock sells enough sets to keep the license and continue making more sets.

Oh also the set builds are also good. Reasonably small. Well thought out.

Each set takes you back into that specific game. Synchronize just pops into your head. Hope to get more sets for all games.

I enjoyed the blind box as it reflected some of the fun environments from the game. I have been playing assassins creed for decades and this allows me to revisit the fun over and over. The quality of the bricks and design is some of the best I have seen in a long time. Huge fan of Wiseblock!!!!

A lot of fun to put together & not super confusing

Very cool mini builds. On par with Lego minus the cost. I hope they come out with a build app like Lego, following these instructions on paper is rough for my old eyes lol.

Pretty good set overall, and I really liked the idea of having multiple smaller sets within the collection. However, I was pretty disappointed that some figures are exclusively kneeling while others are exclusively standing. I would have much preferred if every figure came with the standard arm and hand molds, along with interchangeable lower-body pieces so you could choose whether to display each character standing or kneeling.

I also wasn’t a huge fan of the redesigned arms and open hands on the standing figures. I understand the vision behind the pose, but the extended arms and open hands prevent the figures from holding anything, which limits how they can be displayed.

I thought it was great except for the part where it was one set of legs and arms.

Definitely received all six was worried I wasn't going to get all six and get duplicates. Legitimate

Honestly, I’m so excited to build these legal sets, I am a huge assassin‘s Creed fanatic and I loved assassins Creed two with Ezio. I bought all the Lego sets regarding black flag precinct, and I just bought out these Lego sets you seen the picture it’s honestly worth the money in my opinion, and I will buy every assassin‘s creed set that gets produced. I love the quality in the detail and they are very clean sets. Brings back my childhood and nostalgia as well.