Lego. Countable to Americans; uncountable to Australians. (i.e., "He built a castle made out of Legos," sounds strange to an Australian, but not an American.)
Ice cream. Countable to Australians; uncountable to Americans. (i.e., "We'd like two ice creams," sounds strange to an American, but not an Australian.)
The reason why the first one sounds odd to us is because Lego is a type / brand of building blocks. So we're being lazy by not saying "He built a castle made out of Lego blocks."
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