The attraction, originally titled "Luigi's Roamin' Tires", was announced in late 2007 along with the rest of the Cars Land multi-year expansion plans for Disney California Adventure.

[2] Executive Vice President of Walt Disney Imagineering Kathy Mangum said in 2011 that designing the ride, now named Luigi's Flying Tires, was not easy even with advanced technology.

"I think our ride engineers, when we went to them and said, 'Hey we want people to fly', they would tell you that designing a way for aerodynamics to make that happen was actually pretty difficult", she said.

[3] Mary Niven, vice president of Disney California Adventure Park, likened the ride to an air hockey table.

)[6] After two months, however, they were removed due to increased wait times and some "minor incidents" that occurred when visitors were hit by the beach balls, according to Niven.