Transformers: Robots in Disguise is the title of the 2001 English-ubbed version of the Japanese television series Transformers: CarRobot. In America Robots in Disguise is both Transformers line of toys and cartoon series, a self-contained universe separate from any of the other existing Transformers Universes. It was brought to the West as a "filler" line while production on the next series, Transformers: Armada began.