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Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:37 pm**

hi, i am maximus prime3, creator of the fancharacter maximus prime(2001-) well i am okay seeing him used, i just want to know who is using him as an autobot, i can post a pic of him if you want

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:38 pm**

the former admin of the hmw board

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:41 pm**

when did he create him, cause i take pride of my creation maximus prime

and what is his username?

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:45 pm**

http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/search.php?find_str=Maximus+P&mode=1&type=0

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:46 pm**

The person you're refering is Maximus Prime, who, as Edge mentioned, used to be a moderater here at the site until he moved on to bigger and better things. Here's the link to his team, The Autobots.

To answer your second question, quite a while ago, considering his Maximus is a L5 and he was playing when I started in Oct. 05.

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:47 pm**

I am also using the name Maximus Prime for one of my 'Bots, though his name has "-" around it.

EDIT: Here's the link if you wanna see him:
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/character.php?character_id=64404

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:50 pm**

Maximus Prime was one of the best admins ive met. U should PM him to talk about it, but i think is more about coincidence.

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:50 pm**

but are yall going to disagree that maximus prime is my creation

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:52 pm**

Dragonslayer wrote:I am also using the name Maximus Prime for one of my 'Bots, though his name has "-" around it.

EDIT: Here's the link if you wanna see him:
http://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar/character.php?character_id=64404

that is his alt mode, but he is blue and a decepticon, here is my take on him

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:57 pm**

maximus prime3 wrote:but are yall going to disagree that maximus prime is my creation

Well since he's used that name since 2001....

Live Free or Die!!!

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:58 pm**

Mogwai Prime wrote:
maximus prime3 wrote:but are yall going to disagree that maximus prime is my creation

Well since he's used that name since 2001....

Live Free or Die!!!

i have, that is when i created him and got back into transformers

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:03 pm**

maximus prime3 wrote:but are yall going to disagree that maximus prime is my creation

Well, if you're just talking about the name... It's a fairly obvious use of latin, especially after the movie Gladiator. Of all the permutations I've seen of the name Optimus Prime (there are 226 uses of "Prime" just in the HMW game), it is actually probably one of the most obvious. I imagine a lot of TF fans have used the name, before and after 2001.

If however the character depicted in MP's bio is a copy of the character in your fanfic, and you have good evidence of the fanfic's content and publication date, then I'd say you deserve a writing credit.

So, what is it you're talking about, the name "Maximus Prime" or the character from your fanfic?

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:06 pm**

Tifereth wrote:Maximus Prime was one of the best admins ive met. U should PM him to talk about it, but i think is more about coincidence.

No he wasnt.
Never liked the guy, didnt shed a tear when he buggered off.

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:08 pm**

Caelus wrote:
maximus prime3 wrote:but are yall going to disagree that maximus prime is my creation

Well, if you're just talking about the name... It's a fairly obvious use of latin, especially after the movie Gladiator. Of all the permutations I've seen of the name Optimus Prime, it is actually probably one of the most obvious. I imagine a lot of TF fans have used the name, before and after 2001.

If however the character depicted in MP's bio is a copy of the character in your fanfic, and you have evidence of the fanfic's publication date, than I'd say you deserve a writing credit.

So, what is it you're talking about, the name "Maximus Prime" or the character from your fanfic?

the character in my fanfic, which i will post here soon

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:11 pm**

Question, where and when was your fanfic posted?

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:22 pm**

Hotrod wrote:Question, where and when was your fanfic posted?

you can find them at allspark, tfw2005.com, and tfarchive, i joined the tffandom online last year, but i started to write them in 2001(when i wrote the first one, issue#0)

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:23 pm**

Well, I guess I'll go ahead and give the origins of my Maximus Prime. Bear with me 'cause it may take a little while :wink:

:

In my own little storyline (which I'm thinking about writing down, I haven't decided yet), I have a character named Overdrive, who is operations officer on the Ark, transforms into an F-150, and whose personality is based off my own, in that even though he isn't the biggest, he has one of the biggest "hearts" and will do what is required of him. Well, during the final battle between Optimus' Autobots and Megatron's Decepticons, Megs unleashes a deadly weapon that wipes out most of his own force as well as nearly every Autobot. Only Overdrive survives by hiding under the fallen body of Devastator. When the surviving Decepticons leave, Overdrive goes in search of Optimus Prime. He finds him and realizes that he is going to die. So Optimus tells him of a ship that apparently was sent out to find the Ark but crashlanded on Earth. Then Optimus gives Overdrive the Matrix and (like Hot Rod to Rodimus Prime), Overdrive is transformed into the new Prime and changes from an F-150 to a F-450. Now, when I was coming up with the name of the new Prime, I wanted something unique, simple, and meaningful. And then I had an idea as I was either watching or thinking about the movie Gladiator and the central character, Maximus, who falls from glory to slavery and leads the gladiators in a revolt against the Emperor. And I thought to myself, "That's what my guy's doing! He is having to rise up from defeat, rally a group of somewhat rag-tag warriors, and challenge the power that rules over Earth." (BTW, after the Autobots are defeated, Megatron builds a new army from reprogrammed Autobots in orbit around Earth when the Ark fell under attack by the Nemesis-- kinda like the Axalon. After he builds his army, he enslaves the human race and hoards every energy source on the planet and prepares the Nemesis for their return to Cybertron.) So that's how I arrived with my character, Maximus Prime.

Get all that?

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:24 pm**

maximus prime3 wrote:
Hotrod wrote:Question, where and when was your fanfic posted?

you can find them at allspark, tfw2005.com, and tfarchive, i joined the tffandom online last year, but i started to write them in 2001(when i wrote the first one, issue#0)

So no one online would have seen them until 2006?

Additionally, out of curiosity, how far down this list do I need to go to find your Maximus Prime?

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:25 pm**

Dragonslayer wrote:Well, I guess I'll go ahead and give the origins of my Maximus Prime. Bear with me 'cause it may take a little while :

In my own little storyline (which I'm thinking about writing down, I haven't decided yet), I have a character named Overdrive, who is operations officer on the Ark, transforms into an F-150, and whose personality is based off my own, in that even though he isn't the biggest, he has one of the biggest "hearts" and will do what is required of him. Well, during the final battle between Optimus' Autobots and Megatron's Decepticons, Megs unleashes a deadly weapon that wipes out most of his own force as well as nearly every Autobot. Only Overdrive survives by hiding under the fallen body of Devastator. When the surviving Decepticons leave, Overdrive goes in search of Optimus Prime. He finds him and realizes that he is going to die. So Optimus tells him of a ship that apparently was sent out to find the Ark but crashlanded on Earth. Then Optimus gives Overdrive the Matrix and (like Hot Rod to Rodimus Prime), Overdrive is transformed into the new Prime and changes from an F-150 to a F-450. Now, when I was coming up with the name of the new Prime, I wanted something unique, simple, and meaningful. And then I had an idea as I was either watching or thinking about the movie Gladiator and the central character, Maximus, who falls from glory to slavery and leads the gladiators in a revolt against the Emperor. And I thought to myself, "That's what my guy's doing! He is having to rise up from defeat, rally a group of somewhat rag-tag warriors, and challenge the power that rules over Earth." (BTW, after the Autobots are defeated, Megatron builds a new army from reprogrammed Autobots in orbit around Earth when the Ark fell under attack by the Nemesis-- kinda like the Axalon. After he builds his army, he enslaves the human race and hoards every energy source on the planet and prepares the Nemesis for their return to Cybertron.) So that's how I arrived with my character, Maximus Prime.

Get all that?

okay, but we all need to decide who will be the true maximus prime

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:26 pm**

maximus prime3 wrote:okay, but we all need to decide who will be the true maximus prime

Why?

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:26 pm**

Caelus wrote:
maximus prime3 wrote:
Hotrod wrote:Question, where and when was your fanfic posted?

you can find them at allspark, tfw2005.com, and tfarchive, i joined the tffandom online last year, but i started to write them in 2001(when i wrote the first one, issue#0)

So no one online would have seen them until 2006?

Additionally, out of curiosity, how far down this list do I need to go to find your Maximus Prime?

i don't know(too lazy to look)

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:27 pm**

Caelus wrote:
maximus prime3 wrote:okay, but we all need to decide who will be the true maximus prime

Why?

i just want to know when we talk about maximus prime, who will be the one talked about

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:30 pm**

maximus prime3 wrote:
Caelus wrote:
maximus prime3 wrote:okay, but we all need to decide who will be the true maximus prime

Why?
i just want to know when we talk about maximus prime, who will be the one talked about

Well, regardless of whatever arguments you may make, when people refer to Maximus Prime (here on Seibertron.com), they will be referring to the former moderator (an actual person in this case not a character) 99% of the time.

Even Hasbro couldn't change that if they wanted to - when we talk about Glyph it is understood that we're talking about the former HMW programmer, not the minibot cryptologist.

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:32 pm**

Caelus wrote:
maximus prime3 wrote:
Caelus wrote:
maximus prime3 wrote:okay, but we all need to decide who will be the true maximus prime

Why?
i just want to know when we talk about maximus prime, who will be the one talked about

Well, regardless of whatever arguments you may make, when people refer to Maximus Prime, they will be referring to the former moderator, an actual person in this case not a character, 99% of the time. Even Hasbro couldn't change that if they wanted to - when we talk about Glyph it is understood that we're talking about the former programmer, not the minibot cryptologist.

And if I'm talking about Maximus Prime and it refers to HMW, I always refer to him as -Maximus Prime- for clarification. The only other time I would talk about him would be in reference to my story, which I don't do very often.

Posted: **Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:08 pm**

Redimus wrote:
Tifereth wrote:Maximus Prime was one of the best admins ive met. U should PM him to talk about it, but i think is more about coincidence.

No he wasnt.
Never liked the guy, didnt shed a tear when he buggered off.

just my point of view

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who created the character maximus prime

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