The "hair" is based off of Pele's Hair. That's why Dugtrio and Diglett have it. It's a nice obscure nod to something you see in Hawaii. Thin yellow strips of fiberglass that resemble blonde hair. Nothing odd about it hell, I knew about it before Dugtrio's Alolan form 

In the game it makes sense that it has it XD 

I know Pele from kids shows growing up x.x and more recently SMT games

If this is true, maybe GameFreak should start merging all their third games to the next gen. I don't mind the extra years if we keep getting fresh games like Sun and Moon.

Pokemon Stars, that lets you travel back to Kanto and take on new gyms leaders and a new elite 4 would be nice. And if they really want to make it special travel to Kanto and Jhoto since all 3 regions are right by each other.

I wouldn't consider new Pokemon migrating to an old region after a decade to be as big a liberty as super saiyan pokemon or pokemon super moves.

Honestly, the only "liberty" is with mega-evolutions and ultrabeasts. The reason Megas seem so out of place is because pokemon were always designed around a concept of (very very lose) natural ecology. They were treated like animals that evolved naturally to become what they are, and anything that wasn't was either man-made or are yokai (like Muk or Klefki). Mega Evolutions are weird because it even within the contexts of the games they are unnaturally organic occurances happening often times to historically natural Pokemon. Mega-Evolutions are really just form changes, but they're weird because they are put on Pokemon who were never designed to have these types of form changes. Darmanitan's forme change doesn't seem weird because that is part of it's natural biology. Minior's doesn't seem weird for the same reason. Cherrim, Deoxys, Rotom, Sawsbuck, etc all feel normal with form changes because it's a natural part of their composition. Mega's are not that, which is why they feel like a liberty.

Z-Moves make sense because it's really just an extenision of the domestication of these "animals." It's just a special trick they learn after being domesticated. Mega-evolutions exist outside of that natural design philosophy, which is why it's so weird. The dance is still stupid, but that doesn't make it a liberty. Ultra Beasts are obviously self explanetory, but I like them, so I don't mind.

There's nothing wrong with Alolan Diglett/Dugtrio from a "typical Pokemon" perspective. You just don't like the design, which is fine.

Same with B2W2. Just because you don't like that design decision (neither do I) does not mean that Pokemon was "taking liberties" by having Pokemon migrate to Unova during those two years. Pokemon did the same thing with Gen 2 Kanto. What a coinky-dink.

I don't actually think the next generation will take place in an old region like Kanto, but it wouldn't be some huge creative liberty for something like that to happen, especially when it already has to a smaller scale with Gen 2 Kanto. Especially with the number of new additions shrinking. A Kanto/Johto treated as one great region with 70 or so new Pokemon, new characters, possibly new towns and cities, a new threat that isn't Team Rocket, and an updated setting would be very cool. Hell, do something really crazy and have the player start somewhere else like Saffron or something. And this is coming from someone who loaths Gen 1 pandering.

I don't think they should. They pretty much bastardized the 6th generation by setting up something they never satisfyingly concluded. Gen 6 is inarguably the most incomplete generation because of it, and Zygarde means close to nothing in Sun/Moon.

What Pokemon really should do is stop making intentionally incomplete generational games. Stop introducing Pokemon like Necrozma that are obviously there to set up future games and stop introducing incomplete plotlines like what happened with Zygarde.

Hell, they honestly should just stop making dual Pokemon games all together. There's no technical or monetary reason for it. They could accomplish literally all of the same things with one game. Version exclusives could be choice based. You pick this starter (though honestly they should just let us chose whatever Pokemon we want to start), and you only have access to these Pokemon. You make this choice, and you only have access to those. Then they wouldn't have to arbitrarily need to design legendary Pokemon who's dominions are completely irrelevant to the story around this forced duality anymore and could just focus on one singular plot like was the case with RBGY. Or hell, they could make the plot change based on your choices instead of on what version you arbitrerily pick.

So? The US isn't filled with North America-exclusive animals. In the real world, everlap is everywhere. The sooner you stop thinking of Pokemon as originating from the region they premiered in, the easier this stuff is to accept. For all we know, Kanto Pokemon are just a conglomeration of migrated western Pokemon. The older Pokemon in B2W2 Unova probably migrated from neighboring regions too, just one's we don't have access to.

Again, you could say the same thing about GSE Kanto. Johto was right there. There's no good reason for the Pokemon to suddenly have a change of heart in the span of two years, and yet that's exactly what happened. Again, you have to stop thinking of certain Pokemon as Kanto Pokemon or Hoenn Pokemon and just think of them as Pokemon. Electabuzz is not a "Kanto" Pokemon. It's just a Pokemon first introduced to us as players in Kanto. Electabuzz can be found everywhere in the Pokemon world.

Adding another region on top of Kanto would really negate the point of revisiting, though. At that point, they could just make a new region and end it there. There was a purpose behind revisiting Kanto after Johto that doesn't exist anymore if done in that same way.

Because that's not how Pokemon has ever funtioned. Pokemon has literally never treated pokemon as region specific. Not even legendaries in many cases. There isn't the same diversity of ecology in Pokemon as there are in the real world. When there are millions and billions of unique species of Pokemon, then maybe we can walk about having region specific pokemon. Not every type of Pokemon is found everywhere as is. But every Pokemon introduced is available in more than one region, because Pokemon have never been region specific. They were never treated that way and shouldn't be expected to act that way.

Because the whole point of revisiting is that the region changed so much in 10 years that it's already essentially a new region. When I said to add new towns, I meant like with B2W2 Unova. Adding a new region would just mean setting it there. That's no different from every new Pokemon game. It wouldn't add intruigue to anything - it would literally just be doing the same thing they do every generation.

Let it trample over people's nostalgia. That's the point. Kanto/Johto aren't frozen in time. The 80s was completely different from the 90s. This is a decade of difference. Pokemon isn't a time capsule. Kanto isn't a place where you stay a kid forever. It already changed drastically over the course of 3 years in GSC and people were fine. Cinnabar Island was completely Pompei'd, and people got over it. Pokemon Tower was turned into a radio tower, and people were fine. Red and Blue are canonically 21 now, and people are fine. People understand the basic progression of time. They'll be fine.

They aren't dolphins, assuming your point is that they already made one.

They aren't though. You just don't know of the regions they are apart of yet. You can definitely want it to be however you want. I'm just saying that they aren't taking liberties by doing things like that. I would be very surprised if regional Pokemon formes became a thing outside of Alola, even though I like them too. It's being treated like an alolan thing from what I see.

Time is accelerated in Pokemon, though. Again, look at how much changed in Kanto and Unova in just 3 and 2 years. It doesn't need to make perfect sense in terms of time. It never has. Literally, just having the same basic map layout is enough to take advantage of people's nostalgia. It doesn't need to be the same for people to recognize it, and having new pokemon there wouldn't effect that. Having new towns won't either, just like erredicating Cinnabar didn't. All they need are many of the same characters and references to what came before. GF have a lot of creative freedom for something like this.