The ride vehicles feature Baymax, the rider's "personal healthcare companion", in a non-rideable spaceship connected by a swinging hitch to a rocketship-like bench with a swinging wheel on the bottom that allows the benches to "drift" along the corners in a fashion similar to a whip ride.

[1][2][3][4] The backstory of the ride outlines that Hiro Hamada, the fourteen-year-old robotics prodigy from the 2014 animated feature film Big Hero 6, learns from Baymax, his robotic personal healthcare companion, that the first step to making people healthy is to make them happy.

As such, Hiro and Baymax created a lively, musical ride designed to bring joy to everyone who experiences it.

Guests are invited to join their own personal healthcare companion, "Baymax", and have their happiness levels measured with lights throughout the ride.

[7][8]The soundtrack album The Happy Ride with Baymax was released on November 27, 2020 by Walt Disney Records.