I have been asked to make my nephews birthday cake this comming weekend talk about short notice anyhow he would like a Transformers cake and I have racked my brain and searhed the gallerys and Ive come up with 4 ideas I like enough but they dont strike me as great idea's so i'm turning to the most imaginative creative people on early to give me som suggestions? my nephew is turning 11 I sadly do not have a whole lot of time to put into the cake just one day and just so you know im not what you would call gifted with fondant. thanks in advance I know you all will have great idea's. 
I don't know if you have time to do this...but I've been reading the Whimsical Bakehouse book this evening and I'm so inspired by the chocolate run-outs. I can't wait to try it- maybe, if you have time you could do some run-outs of the transformers or use color flow?
I'm sorry...that's all I can think of 
Hopefully you'll get more responses soon! Good luck! 
i don't know if this helps but for my nephews birthday he wanted a mortal combat cake so what i did was i had bought him some action figures for his birthday and i created a scene and used the action figures that i had bought him on top of the cake and it didn't take me long to make.
When in doubt, go to walmart and get a cute toy to put on your cake....takes the pressure off and the kid gets to keep the toy. 
Maybe you could ice some gram crackers to look like buildings around the edge of the cake and put the transformer on top, like he is attacking the city.
mommachris
This is what I usually do when in a time constraint for a cake. Ice your cake in white BC. While it is crusting get a picture (I usually use one of the kids coloring books) copy it in reverse, put a piece of wax or parchment paper over it. Outline the picture in black BC, let it dry just a bit (not too much or it will break or crack), make sure your cake is smooth and flip the wax paper over onto the cake and press gently so that the outlines "stick" onto the cake. gently pull the wax paper up leaving your coloring book image onto the cake. Then you just fill in with whatever colors you choose. Do some borders, write happy birthday and your done!
The explanation is long but, it actually goes quickly and it looks great. Everyone thinks you are a Picasso!!! 
Here are some transformer coloring book pages you can print out. http://www.coloring.ws/transformers1.htm
Maybe you can find one and do a Frozen Buttercream Transfer, or a Chocolate Transfer, or the idea jarjarmom suggested.
I hope this helps,
Holly
Thankyou for the suggestions sorry it took me so long to reply that darn job always wanting me to be there 
I was thinking about an fbct I love them but transformers are so detailed I'm not sure I could pull it off. what I was thinking is maybe a half sheet with some buildings on ethier side and maybe in the middle an fbct of a transformer standing on like a broken crumbling road. what do you think IF I can do the fbct and thats a big if so far Ive only done them on uncomplicated charecters.
I think you'll be able to do it just fine. I printed out one of those coloring book pages and it's not as detailed as you would think it would be.
I'm sure any kid would be thrilled to have it.
Take a look at the picture with the car. It doesn't look to complicated.
Good luck!!!
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