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Just read this:
Per Hasbro's PR professionals:

The 2009 basic figure order looks like this:

Spring consists of —
A New Hope | 8 figures
The Empire Strikes Back | 6 figures
Attack of the Clones | 6 figures
Return of the Jedi | 8 figures

Fall will see four waves —
A New Hope | 8 figures
The Phantom Menace | 6 figures
Revenge of the Sith | 6 figures
The Empire Strikes Back | 6 figures

— for a total of 54 figures.

A 9th wave, the Expanded Universe wave (6 figures), has slipped to be on-shelf right now around late December / early January so we are not counting that in the 2009 count, unless we are able to bring that one back in.