OK, so the brat would like

[Twiglett]

a Ben-10 party for his 6th birthday

of course there are no Ben-10 things in the UK .. have had to import his christmas & b'day pressies from US

so suggestions on how to make the cake

this is Ben-10

am thinking either watch

or aiming for one of the characters

I'd make a plain round cake and consult these or these people...

local bakers here will actually scan a picture onto the cake and convert it into edible(well full of additives)decoration..try your smaller local ones like(here we have) peters cathedral bakers, clebrations etc..good luck

sains or asda do that sometimes too

Asda do it if you get a good clear quite bright pic it comes out quite good.

do you think they'd do it with a copyright image though?

get him a TV for his bedroom

certainly worth asking...

i know our baker would do it..im sure if you just didnt bring the subject up, although i did and she said she didnt have a prob!

actually, and I know this makes me sound like a nob.. I've never really liked those pre-printed plates you just stick on top of a cake

I like the cakes that look home-made .. like they took swearing and umphing and wetting of icing and thumbing it over to close a hole

do you know the type? the type that looks like a 1-armed, no-eyed armadillo made it

that's the kind I'm good at

round home-made cake, horrid green icing rolled on top, black ring round edge, black sillouhette of alien in middle made from black icing. There you go

Asda won't use a copyrighted image

asda wont but ebay sellers will!

can you draw/paint? buy a pack of new paintbrushes and just paint onto fondant with food colour

tricky - you could do normal round victoria sponge and then either do what filthymindedvixen suggested or do the Ben 10 logo (which looks fairly easy but necessarily that impressive iyswim)

not necessarily