I have a big dinner dance coming up in 2 weeks, and I am clueless! They are having an 80's theme, and all I can think of is big hair and leg warmers! LOL.. But I want to get going on this, but not sure where to start. Any ideas out there??? anyone??? I have to serve around 200-225 people...

Thanks for your help!
Debbie

I found this in today's favorites. It's a pac man cake: http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1559168

Neon and geometric shapes. Lots and lots of neon!!!

Are you planning on a tiered cake or sheet cakes? or both? That's a lot of servings!

Here's more:
a giant rubix cube, or:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atasteofwhimsy/3317322203/
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://acreativecake.com/uploads/80_s_Theme.jpg&imgrefurl=http://acreativecake.com/graduation.html&usg=__0XYb2kJzmMgeZkiLFP4T9R1joH8=&h=483&w=548&sz=78&hl=en&start=10&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=kGCPIcW0D_TUAM:&tbnh=117&tbnw=133&prev=/images%3Fq%3D80%2527s%2Bthemed%2Bcake%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GGLL_enUS312US312%26um%3D1
http://www.walyou.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/80s-Cake.jpg

a boom box with cassettes

RUBIX CUBE!!! that is an awesome idea! If you didn't want to do it for the whole cake, at least a layer!!

Mario Brothers: http://www.geekologie.com/2008/02/20/mario-cake.jpg
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/246142812_0ff72323ea.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/alttext/246142812/&usg=__BtIvjtBOYiZtLAKIcp8sQixKRmM=&h=500&w=400&sz=133&hl=en&start=3&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=x7VjTQka9OVYBM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=104&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmario%2Bbrothers%2Bcake%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GGLL_enUS312US312%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://youmadewhatyouare.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/super-mario-bros-cake.jpg&imgrefurl=http://youmadewhatyouare.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/well-done/&usg=__KWk4OBDk6a05nmYfkrmLBgKPIsY=&h=590&w=580&sz=177&hl=en&start=4&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=5Whr4x4ElKoFJM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=133&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmario%2Bbrothers%2Bcake%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GGLL_enUS312US312%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1

gosh.... trying to think that far back....

smurfs
pacman
michael jackons thriller came out
cabage patch dolls i think
Mr T
rubic cube
didnt the berlin wall come down in the late 80's??
Macintosh came out their first computer too by memory
movies, ghost busters, ET and for TV miami vice

how to put them on a cake - no idea, but this is what i remember

A Rubik cube is perfect for that stuff! I think there is a really good example on this site. you could even do a pac man cake

Roller skates
Neon colors
boom Boxes
Something with the show "Fame" incorported in it...that was pretty big in the 80's

I am trying to think of the big movies of that time but I am drawing a blank

Saturday Night Fever theme
a disco ball
anything disco
Xanadu theme with a roller skate
E.T.
Moonstruck
Ferris Buehler's Day Off
A Christmas Story (yuck, I hate this movie, but it is popular) - do the leg lamp from the movie.

Any of the top movie themes, or combined. A VCR with a tape.

anything MTV, cassete tapes, head phones, boom boxes, lots of neon colors, acid wased jeans......i keep thinking of the opening of Saved by the Bell, lol, good luck, hope this helped!

Do an ALF cake.

Yeah, ALF in roller skates... with a disco ball.

Here's a list of the Top 100 Movies of the 1980's (1980-1989):
http://www.eightyeightynine.com/film/top100_boxoffice.html

And here's a little 1980's popular culture history to spark your creativity:
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1980s.html

Good Luck!
Anna

Here's one I found while looking for something else today. I thought it was pretty neat!

http://www.walyou.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/80s-Cake.jpg

Also: Atari, Goonies, leg warmers, a cassette player w/ headphones (ohhhh ipods are much better ). big teased hair, acid washed jeans, transformers, thundercats & voltron (I LOVED THEM), gi joe, mario, rainbow brite, smurfs, he man, she-ra, fragle rock, A-team (watched religiously w/ my brother), knight rider, different strokes, rubix cube, nintendo, popples (don't laugh b/c it's still at my mom's), cabbage patch dolls, glo worms, care bears, pac man, donkey kong, frogger, star wars, indiana jones, high tops & I could go on

ETA:

How could I forget: You Can't Do That on Television & Gremlins (man that FREAKED me out!) And you could incorporate KIDS Incorporated & "Fergie"
I may have been a kid in the 80s but boy do I remember them enough to hope they don't return!

These are some great ideas! All I could think of was leg warmers, but how do I make THAT into a cake! You guys rock! I love the rubicks cube! and pac-man! and all the other ideas! Now, how do I put them into one cake? hmmm I'll have to work on that! any other ideas are welcome, I know its alot of cake, and I can do basically whatever I want, either tiered or sheetcakes, so its up to me... gettin' excited!

Debbie

If you do a tiered cakes, just marbleize the fondant in bright neon colors. Then make small fondant versions of a bunch of the different ideas and place them on the edges of the tiers, I think I'd put a larger rubix cube on top. This way, no carving, and you can make all the different items way ahead of time so baking time will be much less stressful.

Black with pink, neon yellow, neon green, electric blue... I could go on.
80's is super easy

If you search on this site you should get some ideas for stacked cakes...also on google or flickr. that way you can see what others have done and get ideas for how you want to do things