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Martian Letters?


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 I found this little Life on Mars poster in a box of instructions and mini-catalogs:

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Not my scan, but it was much better quality since mine was all crumpled :/

Those characters in Arcturus' speech bubble are apparently letters from a writing system used by Martians. It made me think of the Mars Mission alien font (which can be downloaded here), although I have no idea if the LoM site had its own downloads page or an official font. What also interested me was that a few of the letters look strikingly similar to those in the MM font, such as A (slanted eye) and E (swirl).

EDIT: Here's another poster that came with set 7303:

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Huh, I'd forgotten about this. I remember having posters like that, and I wanna say one of them maybe had a translation guide... maybe. I also recall something about it being very similar to the Mars Mission text like you said... Maybe it was even the same thing? Gah, I don't remember. I'm curious now.

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I found another mini-poster included with a set I don't own (7303), so I updated the post. These actually go together to form a much larger poster:

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 Pretty nice, but it's a little weird that most of the Martians appear in multiple spots.

Huh, I'd forgotten about this. I remember having posters like that, and I wanna say one of them maybe had a translation guide... maybe. I also recall something about it being very similar to the Mars Mission text like you said... Maybe it was even the same thing? Gah, I don't remember. I'm curious now.

While I don't recall there being a printed translation guide, one of the early radio logs included a game to translate a message for the astronauts. Maybe it had a guide or at least utilized the font? Who knows? If the archived LoM site wasn't so broken, it might be easier to find out.

 

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