Coaster101 Jumps Across the Pond

Meet Anthony Skitt, the newest Coaster101 writer, who is joining the team all the way from the United Kingdom.

Anthony is an IT professional, and enjoys spending spare time with friends and family (he’s recently engaged, see below), watching movies, listening to music, following most sports, and, of course, riding roller coasters and visiting theme parks.

Anthony started writing for Coaster101 in August, and he’s already shared insightful content, both from the U.K. and the U.S. Check out his posts here.

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As with all new team members, we asked Anthony a few random questions:

If you could build any roller coaster in your backyard, which would it be and why?

There’s one thing I never get tired of, speed. For that reason, I would love to have Kingda Ka back there. Why that and not Formula Rossa? Because of the added thrills in the climb and the drop.

If you could meet any roller coaster designer or amusement industry legend (alive or not), who would it be and why?

For roller-coaster designer it could be any number of people, but I will go with amusement industry legend Walt Disney. To put that much sacrifice, faith, money and hard work of an entire family into such a project is the reason it worked. If only he could see the parks today.

What’s your favorite in-park eatery or food?

Pizzafari. I visit the restaurant every trip I take to Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Their combo of cheese pizza and gooey chocolate dessert…heavenly.

Tell us an interesting tidbit about yourself.

I got engaged to my beautiful girlfriend Natalie in January 2013, and we are planning to get married in the summer of 2014. She shares my love of Theme Parks and is without a doubt the biggest Walt Disney World fan I have ever known.

We are excited to have Anthony on the team and look forward to reading his contributions to the website.

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