V4.2's new male morph is a precursor to DAZ's future plans. That's been stated ("everyone needs to have access to V4").

V4.1 already has a Young Teen morph (Laura 4, basically). A4 is to be similiar -- a morph or cr2 extension. V4.2's male morph will not replace the announced forthcoming Michael 4, but instead serve as the building blocks for Luke 4 (YT), similiar to the original Milboys.

Any other male figures (David/Hiro/Freak) will more than likely just be morph/deformer extensions instead of separate figures. Basically, a consolidation of the figure market, due to the "advanced" technology of V4.

I just hope that V4.2 will no longer have the assinine constraints built in, and the dials become reversable.

Upon V4's release, there was an outcry from the forumites about the future "unimesh" model and what could and couldn't be migrated to the new figures. It would make savvy business sense to make the entire line of "4" figures completely compatible, espeically since DAZ has sponsered many clothing morph kits featuring the newest body shapes (Morphina, Laura 4 "whatever her name was," etc). This way, their vendors wouldn't have to create more than one outfit and could concentrate on a wider variety of characters and wardrobe.

All speculation, of course, but that seems to be the model demonstrated so far.

-- Jeff