While "Beast Machines" was still running in Canada, Japan's Takara made a bid to return to the familiar vehicle-transforming robots concept. In 2000, "Car Robots" was released. This line was brought by Hasbro to America as the "Robots In Disguise" series, and featured the Autobots facing off against the Predacons. This series is usually regarded by most as filler while Hasbro contemplated the next direction for Transformers. However most fans of Transformers recognise that most if not all of the toys released from this line were of excellent quality (with the Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus figures gaining considerable praise), combining the ball-joint articulation with detailed, well painted alternate modes.