Fuhu Nabi 2 tablet bricked  recovery
Fixed!

I posted a similar question on xda.forums and was pointed in the right direction relating to fastboot protocol.

My device was not showing as installed correctly in device manager and nothing seemed to fix it, re-installing/driver updates etc.

I started from scratch by uninstalling the original Nabi drivers, java, sdk and adb drivers. (I kept windows 8 usb unsigned drivers installed).

I re-installed java, sdk, and adb drivers. I did not install the original nabi drivers.

After re-installing everything, in device manager my device had no conflicts and when fastboot was selected in &lt;3e> recovery I then got the second fastboot protocol menu up and was able to use the command line to send the TWRP image file to the device. ;0)

Success.