Jorphdan previews the Spelljammer ship minis available for pre-order from Wizkids.
This (first?) wave includes:
Turtle Ship
Scorpion
Astral Dreadnought -- A monster first featured on the cover of the AD&D Manual of the Planes, and included in every edition since. Earlier versions were known as the ethereal dreadnought.
Lamprey
Giant Gelatinous Cube -- This thing has got to be even easier to run away from in space, right?
Hammerhead
Esthetic -- The reason Jorphdan couldn’t find a ship card for the esthetic is because it’s technically a creature. It’s included in the Monstrous Compendium Spelljammer Appendix I (MC7), and is created and flown by the reigar, who also have an entry in that book.
Three generic Asteroids -- Useful for set dressing. Turn them around, let’s see if any of them have mouths!
Megapede -- Another monster on a ship scale. The megapede was first published for Dark Sun, in Monstrous Compendium Dark Sun Appendix -- Terrors of the Desert (MC12). I have lost count of the number of Dark Sun originated monsters that have been previewed for this upcoming Spelljammer set. I think it’s five or six, now.
Wasp -- My post on the Wasp is here. It’s a fairly sturdy ship, but in OG Spelljammer you had to salvage it or take it from the lizardfolk if you wanted one.
Living Ship -- I have no idea what this is. It’s probably new.
Space Galleon
Bombard
Squid Ship
Ancient Gold Dragon
Shrike Ship
Star Moth (Elvish Man-O-War)
Ancient Solar Dragon
Ancient Lunar Dragon
Damselfly -- The damselfly is indeed a variation of the Dragonfly ship. It’s an upgrade, to be honest, made of ceramic, fully enclosed, and with crew reduced to two. It’s a gamble to try and board a random Damselfly, because you can’t tell what the crew is made of unless they come outside to fire their weapon(s) at you.
Adult Red Dragon
Swarm of Murder Comets
Tyrant Ship -- Tyrant ships are discussed here and beholders are discussed here. I really, really want to see how they will handle beholders, seeing as a single beholder is already a CR 13 legendary creature, and really complicated to run.
Cosmic Horror -- Ia! Ia!
Flying Fish (Tradesman) -- Discussed here. A step up from a beginner ship.
Nightspider (Neogi Deathspider) -- Neogi are discussed here. A Deathspider is not for the weak of heart, or high of THAC0. I expect that the Nightspider will be largely similar, although neogi no longer automatically come with umber hulk bodyguards.
Nautiloid
Also on offer are two battlemats, one for Wild Space and one for the Astral Sea.
