oh man! was this a learning experience or what!! lol...chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream. fondant everything except popcorn; it was buttercream, half white half yellow. thank you so much CCers for all of the great advice! ice was a disaster first go around but second time came out great. handpainted stripes on "bucket"...but didn't much care for the outcome. plus i messed up and splatter paint on a white stripe so had to do it for all of em. but had fun doing it nonetheless... :D